what to put a fire out with?

Answer 1

water, foam, sand it depends if a chip pan fire you should throw a damp tea towel over it definitely not water

Answer 2

It depends on the type of fire.

If it's electrical, DO NOT use water for obvious reasons. Also, if it's liquid fuel fire like oil or any other oil based fire such as chip fan fire or petrol, DO NOT use water. This is because the pressure released when steam is released from the water will spread the burning oil/petrol to other areas and spreading the fire.

Sand is a good extinguisher if you have it handy. CO2 is good for electrical fires and liquid fuel fires, though foam is best for liquid fuels, but DO NOT use CO2 on paper based fires (or any fires with loose ashes) as the CO2 will blow the hot ashes everywhere and spread the fire.

Answer 3

Depends how big it is! Fire brigade probably by now if it's burning away and you're asking on here!

If it's a small fire and NOT an electrical one, get water on it!

or for any other kind of small fire, throw a fireproof blanket, or something over it to starve it of oxygen!

Answer 4

Water

Answer 5

Sand is really good. A fire sand bucket or fire bucket is a bucket filled with sand which is used to put out fires. They are often kept next to ovens, barbeques and other areas where fires can occur. Because oil-fires are resistant to water, a fire sand bucket is used to put out the fire. In order to put out the fire, the sand in the bucket is dumped on the fire to starve it of the oxygen it needs to stay alight.

The standard and most common way to control a class-A fire (the combustion of a flammable material with oxygen and heat) is to remove heat by spraying the burning solid fuels with water

CLASS B FIRES: (hydrocarbons and fuels on fire) require much different handling than the standard water approach. Many fuels, such as gasoline or oil float on water, and water would actually end up spreading the fire further.

Other fuels, such as coal, will not be put out by water, as fire spreads to the inside of the coal and cannot be reached by water - as soon as the water stops, the fire inside of the coal spreads back out to the outside. Fire control of these fires requires specialized methods, and can be problematic to ordinary fire stations due to the fact that these materials may not always be available.

One way to control a class-B fire would be to dump chemical dust on it - this is also a method for handling class-A fires, and actually tends to be preferable due to the fact that sprayed water tends to cause property damage. Gasoline fires are more often smothered in a cooling protein foam.

CLASS C FIRE:
These are electrical fires - fires that are caused by an electrical source and get their heat from electricity. These fires are dangerous because if water is used on them, electrical current will be passed through the stream and back into the firefighter. There are only two ways to deal with this type of fire - take away the oxygen (smother it with foam or a fire extinguisher) or simply turn off the electricity, which will cause the fire to either die out or become a regular class-A fire.


In Europe and Australasia, a different classification system is used.

Class A: Fires that involve flammable solids such as wood, cloth, rubber, paper, and some types of plastics.

Class B: Fires that involve flammable liquids or liquifiable solids such as petrol/gasoline, oil, paint, some waxes & plastics, but not cooking fats or oils.

Class C: Fires that involve flammable gases, such as natural gas, hydrogen, propane, butane.

Class D: Fires that involve combustible metals, such as sodium, magnesium, and potassium.

Class E: Fires that involve any of the materials found in Class A and B fires, but with the introduction of an electrical appliances, wiring, or other electrically energized objects in the vicinity of the fire, with a resultant electrical shock risk if a conductive agent is used to control the fire.

Class F: Fires involving cooking fats and oils. The high temperature of the oils when on fire far exceeds that of other flammable liquids making normal extinguishing agents ineffective.

Answer 6

No single type of extinguisher is totally effective on every kind of fire.

NEVER use a standard water extinguisher on a fire where there is electrics/electricity around, or buring fat or oil !!!!!!!

The two fire extinguishers in my house (in kitchen and in loft conversion) are dry powder types... which are safe to use on most types of fire.

Answer 7

for a kitchen stove use salt or flour

if something over runs in the oven while baking put some salt on the spot until food is done will cut down on the burning odor and makes the spot easier to clean up

Answer 8

Depends on the type of fire?

Answer 9

A fire-blanket.

Answer 10

Water/sand.