Fire Extinguishers

Fire can be started with many things, with irresponsible work in kitchen or near fire, with damaged wire and electric items. Short circuits also cause houses and establishments on fires. The continuous and heavy use of big and intense electric machinery can also cause severe electric fires. These fires can be so much dangerous that they can kill hundreds of people and more buildings can be destroyed in a row. The history of mankind has been full these type of these incidents where fire has destroyed towns and cities. In the past there were no way to save buildings and people, people who were able to leave the building only survived. They were used to help themselves by trying to put of the fire with only water. After some time with so much incidents people started making organizations for this purpose, at first the worker were used to volunteer but after that government took interest and started coming up with different plans and strategies for this.

Many incidents were because people didn’t get to know about the fire in the building on time, they get aware only then when it got out of way and there remain no way to save themselves and other people. Because of such happenings, technologists came up with devices such as sprinkles or smoke detectors. These devices are being installed in houses, offices, hotels and many other places. These are being used to detect if any area of any build gets on fire, these will judge the fire with the smoke and a alarm turns on and people will know immediately that the building has got fire. In more advanced case there are sprinkles on the roofs that will start sprinkling water as soon as the detector detect smoke on it.

The most important thing that people do not know while dealing with fires is that different type of fire needs to be deal in different way. It is important to learn the signs of fire given on the extinguisher’s label to deal with the heavy electric equipments such as motors, appliances, circuits, wiring and outlets. When the wire through sparks the material got fire which is combustible in be placed near those parks. There are non-conductive extinguishing materials which can be used instead of water and these are dry chemical powder and carbon dioxide. Particular extinguishers are being used for specific type of fire. Electric fire has been described in different classes in different areas, in America is has been classified in class C and in Europe and Australia it is being classified in class E. carbon dioxide put the oxygen away from fire and the lake of oxygen make it disappear. Dry chemicals are the most effective extinguishers. It can be used on class B fires.