Aerial Wildland Firefighting is About to Change Globally
Deliver 14X more suppression capability than today’s aerial wildfire firefighting tools at half the market price with the SKHI-EX™ Wildfire Suppression System by Western States Fire.
80 Years of Aerial Firefighting—With No Innovation Or Change
The SKHI-EX™ system by Western States Fire is ready to change that. The SKHI-EX™ aerial delivery system in one pass delivers 8,300 feet of environmentally safe foam. It would take 14 helicopter water drops using today’s approach to equal one SKHI-EX™ system working to extinguish fires in days—not weeks. With over 32 miles of Fireline suppressed per every 8 hours in service, the SKHI-EX™ system is what our wildland firefighters need globally to reduce costs, save lives, and significantly accelerate firefighting time in an environmentally safe manner.
Dropping Water
Dropping Retardant
Ground Firefighting
SKHI-EX™ Reduces Property Losses, Wildland Firefighting Costs & Environmental Impacts.
Review Our Recent Simulation & Analysis of the 2020 August Complex Fire
THE SITUATION:
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Burned 76 days
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Cost $178 million total, $40 million in air costs
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935 structures lost
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27.7 million metric tons of CO2 pollution
SIMULATION PROJECTED IMPACTS:
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Reduce burn days to <10 days total
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Save up to $100 million in total costs
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Reduce carbon emissions by up to 80%
Invest in the Future of Aerial Wildland Firefighting
We Need Your Help to Bring SKHI-EX™ To The Global Community
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Environmentally safe, GRAS approved, and FREE of PFAS
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Drops over 50,000 CFM of Foam/Minute
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Half the price of current tools and systems
Western States Fire, Inc. has obtained a U.S. Patent for the SKHI-EX™ aerial firefighting delivery system. Additional patents will be actively applied for in the future for elements of the solution, such as the integrated electronic control systems.
Management plans to distribute its SKHI-EX™ systems globally for mounting on helicopters and or heavy-lift drones. They also plan to distribute the proprietary environmentally safe foam concentrate for use in wildland ground firefighting operations. Other enhancements and applications for fire suppression foam are being identified and pursued to drive added revenues.
