Talk:Fire flapper

I find it extremely hard to locate proper information about this tool. First I searched for Danish pages for the da: article and later English pages for the en: article. Most of the results are either equipment sales or Wikipedia mirrors. The best source I could find was Safeteam. So part of the article is based on personal knowledge about the topic. --|EPO| ^da: 18:59, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

This is not clear at all

 A flapper is built with a long handle and a series of lamellae which allows firefighters to stand well back from the fire. The lamellae are constructed in either rubber or steel, though practically any other fire-resistant material could be used. 

I can't even figure out what this means. What are 'lamellae' and how do they help the user stand back from the fire? The photos provided only show a plain wooden handle. If it refers to the flaps on the head, then they have nothing to do with allowing the user to stand back. The handle serves that purpose, the head works to beat out the fire. On a rake, the head allows for easy manipulation of materials, the handle allows you to do it while standing upright. The functions do not overlap. In any case plain English would be more useful, or at least an explanation of what the term refers to would help. I don't consider myself totally stupid, but the best I can do is guess at what the meaning is here, and that's only because the only part of the tool that looks even remotely like what is described on Lamellae is the series of flaps on the head. If that is indeed what it means, it ought to read

 "a flapper is built as a fan of overlapping flaps or bundle of flexible strips (lamellae), and fitted with a long handle to allow the user to stand well back from the fire".

It also says in the first sentence that it is metal and shaped like a rake, but this is contradicted a short time later, and one of the photos shows a device built like a mop with rubberized canvas strips.

70.16.213.67 (talk) 18:07, 22 July 2021 (UTC)