The product is called Barricade Fire Gel and it really works. As matter of fact it has even received a fire chemical award from the E.P.A. The product, the complete home defense system, comes in 4 one gallon containers and you simple attach a hose to one end of it and use the spray nozzle to apply it to the exterior surface of your home including the roof, siding, windows etc. and you can even use it on your vehicles and propane gas tanks as well as on brush or other highly flammable items.
Please read the following:
Barricade Fire Gel is the only fire chemical to receive the prestigious "Champion Award"
from our nation's E.P.A. We received this award for our
industry-leading commitment to use only a safe surfactant in our
revolutionary fire gel formulation . EPA defines safer surfactants as
those that break
down quickly to non-polluting compounds. EPA states that Nonylphenol
Ethoxylates, commonly referred to as NPEs (found in other brands of
fire gels), do not meet this definition. NPEs and their breakdown products are toxic to aquatic life.
BARRICADE
FIRE GEL IS THE ONLY LIQUID FIRE GEL CONCENTRATE THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED
FOR USE BY THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN NPEs OR
PETROLEUM DISTILLATES!
The website firegel.com has a true life story of a families effort to save their home as fire was approaching with high winds. I would like to quote the article below.
One Homeowner's true life experience with Barricade®
My son spotted the smoke. Winds of 40 mph were gusting in every
direction. We raced home. By the time we pulled into the driveway, the
flames were already licking the top of the hillside above our home.
I
quickly broke out the Barricade, and I will tell you the truth, my
hands were shaking. My fifteen year old son and I were able to get the
gallon jugs attached to garden hoses and began to spray down the home.
I started on the propane tank, while my son hit the side of the house
nearest the flames. While I was spraying the tank, I heard two
explosions in rapid succession to the west of us. One neighbor’s
propane tank had blown and a car’s gasoline tank had exploded. Those
two homes were lost to the flames.
It took about 30 minutes for the two of us to get the home covered. The
Barricade coated all sides of the house, including the windows and the
eaves. My son got our pets into the Jeep, which he drove to a safe
location across the street.
Then the winds shifted. The flames came racing in, driven by 45 mph
gusts. I attached three garden hoses together and went out into the
brush that surrounds our house. It’s mainly sage brush and cheat grass,
and the flames were moving fast.
Thick smoke made it hard to breath. I laid a line of Barricade down in
a trench I had dug the previous year to divert rain and snow runoff
away from the back of the house.
The winds continued to blow and the fierce brush fire exploded down the
hillside. When it reached the line of Barricade— it stopped cold! The
winds fanned the flames to the west of us and over past the neighbors’
homes but the fire never made it past the Barricade gel I had laid down
in the dried-out brush.
Our whole family breathed a sigh of relief. The flames had come within
50 feet of our home! The photos I took afterward show the dramatic
power of the Barricade to stop the flames. I don’t believe I’ve ever
had so clear a demonstration of the effectiveness of the technology
behind a product. Nor a more timely one!
This is a pretty amazing story and there are others like this on forums and blogs. No one can say if it will work the same way for everyone as it did for these people, but I can tell you this, it sure would be worth using it if you were in this situation.
To find out more about the product click on the following link.
Barricade Fire Gel