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Abstract

A wildfire defense spraying process for spraying and protecting property and combustible surfaces with an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor that inhibits fire ignition and flame spread caused by hot flying wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm. The wildfire defense spraying process involves maintaining a storage tank containing a supply of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor comprising a major amount of tripotassium citrate (TPC) and minor amount of triethyl citrate (TEC) dissolved in a major amount of water according to a prespecified formulation, wherein the environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor remains stable without the formation of solids at expected operating temperatures, and ready for immediate spraying on combustible property. When a spraying-trigger signal is received by an automated wildfire detection system, a mobile phone or other intelligent source, an electric-powered hydraulic pump system is automatically energized and pumps environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor from the storage tank through piping, under pressure, to spray heads mounted about the property, to produce a spray pattern of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor that covers all the property and combustible surfaces to be defended against wildfire. When the hydraulic pump system completes its pumping operations, the hydraulic pump system automatically shuts off. As water molecules in the sprayed environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor evaporates to the environment, thin fire-inhibiting potassium salt crystalline coatings form on the sprayed combustible surfaces, inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wildfire embers.

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