Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fire fighting and cooling composition. The composition includes a non-ionic surfactant selected from alkyl polyglycosides, N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidones, and combinations thereof. The alkyl polyglycoside non-ionic surfactants have a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl side chain of from 6 to 18 carbon atoms and the N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidones have a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl side chain of from 8 to 10 carbon atoms. The composition also includes an anionic surfactant selected from alkyl ether sulfates, alkyl ether phosphates, and combinations thereof. The composition further includes an amphoteric surfactant. In the composition, the non-ionic surfactant is present at a concentration of from about 0.25% to about 13.0% by weight, the anionic surfactant is present at a concentration of from about 10.0% to about 50.0% by weight, and the amphoteric surfactant is present at a concentration of from about 0.5% to about 15.0% by weight.

Abstract: A fire fighting and cooling composition that is particularly useful for fighting fires involving polar solvents and volatile liquid hydrocarbons includes a combination of non-ionic surfactants, such as amine oxides, organic sulfates or sulfonates, and amphoteric surfactants, such as acylamidoalkylbetaines.

Abstract: Methods of extinguishing a fire in the presence of an alkali metal, such as lithium type fires, by contacting the fire with a mixture of different nonylphenolethoxylates with a non-aqueous solvent.

Abstract: The fire fighting and hot surface cooling methods of this invention use a composition formed by combining a nonionic surfactant possessing a specific photoexcitable functional group with an arylphosphate, also of photoexcitable nature, in a solvent medium of composition and content that allows for a convenient workable viscosity and is resistant to effects of freezing. The ultimate water solution used for spraying to extinguish a fire or cool a surface contains from 2000 ppm of the surfactant nonylphenolethoxylate and 94 ppm of the arylphosphate, poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), .alpha.-phenol-.omega.-hydroxy-(2)-phosphate to 3000 ppm surfactant and 141 ppm arylphosphate. The spray solution is applied to the fire until the desired result occurs.