This 1954 film report from the Exploratory Committee on the application of water (sponsored jointly by the Fire Department Instructors Conference and the Fire Service Training Association and composed of fire chiefs, instructors in firemanship and fire protection engineers), and presented by the Elkhart line of Select-O-Stream Mystery Fog Nozzles, shows the 8 and 9 July 1954 large-scale fire test on a building in Kansas City, MO testing firefighting techniques using Elkhart’s JN 200 nozzle on three test fires ignited in the same building. The film opens with Emmet Cox, chairman of the Exploratory Committee and Senior Field Officer of the Fire Prevention Department, Western Actuarial Bureau, Chicago speaking to the camera about the film’s credentials and the overview of testing the fog nozzles on controlled fires. The film then shows several notable people at the test (02:58), including Battalion Chief Grant of the Kansas City, MO Fire Department; Dick Verner, Manager of Fire Prevention Department of Western Actuarial Bureau; the Manager of Oklahoma’s Inspection Bureau; and Kansas City Fire Department Chief Ed Grass. Firemen and equipment manufacturers are on hand for the testing of the nozzles at an old building with Standard Paper Co. and Strongheart signs painted on one wall of the building. A shot shows the basement of the building loaded with furniture to simulate an actual warehouse full of items inside (04:23). A master spray nozzle is in position (a JN 200 nozzle); KC firemen stand ready in full gear and masks for the start of the first test—a fire in the basement of the building. The building begins smoking as the fire is ignited (05:46). Firemen spray water into an opening in the building; a shot some distance from the building shows steam being expelled from the building as water is indirectly applied to the fire. Men on ladders move toward the building (06:48). Firemen enter through a window on the second floor with hand lines. Firemen climb into the first floor and move water lines into the building. Following the conclusion of the first test fire, firemen enjoy refreshments at the local Red Cross chapter food truck (07:58). A fire is ignited on the second floor in the next test (08:32). A ladder pipe attacks the fire at the rear of the building. Shots show the short blasts of water fog into the building. Footage shows smoke and steam billowing from the top half of the building as a ladder pipe sprays water through a window (10:05). A fireman operates a waterpipe at the top of a ladder (11:45). Firemen extend a nozzle into the building from a ladder to continue cooling the fire (12:30). The fire is brought under control as two waterpipes set up at the rear of the building. The building is shown with minimal smoke and steam escaping. A fireman uses a hand line to mop up on the roof of the building (14:12). The final test is a fire on the fourth floor of the building. 15:22 Two ladder pipes are set up at each end of building (15:22). A JN 200 nozzle is used on the first ladder pipe to attack the fire. Rear ladder pipes spray water at an elevator shaft (17:28). Shortly after, a portion of the roof falls away from the building. The ladder pipe continues spraying the building. From a safe distance away, a fireman directs the nozzle of a ladder pipe (18:44), spraying water onto the middle of the building where the portion of the roof fell away, concluding the film.

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