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If you don't want to have no suitable fire-fighting equipment to put out the fire in time when the fire happens around you, and if you don't want the avoidable damage to become the loss of life and property of the whole family, then please read it carefully and prepare enough for your home and Suitable fire fighting equipment.
Type of fire
According to the current international standard and national standard "Fire Classification", fire can be divided into six categories
1. Class A fire: refers to solid object fire. Such as the burning of wood, cotton, wool, linen, paper and its products.
2. Class B fire: refers to liquid fire or meltable solid material fire. Such as gasoline, diesel, crude oil, methanol, ethanol, asphalt, paraffin and other burning fires.
3. Class C fire: refers to gas fire. Such as gas, natural gas, methane, ethane, propane, hydrogen and other combustion fires.
4. Class D fire: refers to metal fire. Such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, titanium, zirconium, lithium, aluminum-magnesium alloys and other burning fires.
5. Class E (charged) fire: refers to the fire of charged objects. Such as the generator room, transformer room, power distribution room, instrument room and electronic computer room, etc., the electrical equipment that cannot be powered off in time or should not be powered off when burning is ignited. General lighting circuits and general lighting fixtures.
6. Class F fire: Refers to household cooking fires, mainly oil burning and fires.
Common fires in homes are: ABCEF
Solid object fires are mainly caused by children ignorantly playing with lighters to ignite flammable materials; falling asleep while smoking and igniting sofas, beds, etc.; and mosquito coils, candles igniting flammable objects, and fires caused by careless heating. These are collectively referred to as A class fire.
Home cooking fires are mainly caused by the oil fire caused by the oil pan being too hot. Excessive oil spills and burns with an open flame. When people leave the cooking, the result is scorched and eventually ignited as a Class F fire.
If the gas and natural gas is too close to the stove and there is no isolation, it is possible to ignite the liquefied gas tank mouth and the combustion of liquefied gas leakage. It is a Class C fire.
Fire caused by electrical appliances, electric mattresses and heating wires are heated for a long time or unqualified and ignited; Fires caused by placing near combustibles; fires caused by aging wires and random connection of electrical appliances for a long time; electrical appliances themselves If these fires cannot be powered off in time, they are Class E fires, and if they have been powered off, they can be regarded as Class A fires.
Fires accidentally caused by alcohol lamps and alcohol disinfection in the home are regarded as Class B fires.
Common types of fires on cars are: ABE
Fires caused by gasoline burning are classified as Class B fires
Electric vehicle combustion belongs to Class E live fire
Car interior burning caused by cigarette butts is a Class A fire