December 16, 2025

Could one day, when fire trucks respond to a fire, instead of training water on a blaze, they use a gigantic sound wave generator? That’s the hope of a couple of Engineering Graduates from George Mason University. Seth Robertson told a Virginia TV station that he envisions a lot of uses for the device:

The other graduate is Viet Tran. The men say that sound in the 30 to 60 Hertz range appears to vibrate oxygen away from the fuel, putting the fire out.

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