Fire Classes
The 5 classes of fires.
What are Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, and Class K?
Extinguishers are made for specific types of fires. How many types of fire extinguishers are there?
What is Five types of extinguishers?
These 3 things are needed for a fire to occur.
What is Heat, Fuel, and Oxygen?
After this historical fire, sprinkler systems were a requirement for buildings.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
This is an acronym to remember the method of putting out a fire.
What is the P.A.S.S. method?
This type of fire contains ordinary combustibles such as wood and paper.
What is Class A Fires?
The P.A.S.S. method is an acronym for:
What is Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep?
This is the name for the 3 components of a fire.
What is the Fire Triangle?
This is the method of trying to prevent fires from starting.
What is Fire Prevention?
When a fire occurs there is a potential for human loss and this type of loss.
What is Financial Loss?
A type of fire that contains mainly grease from the kitchen.
What is Class K Fires?
Multipurpose fire extinguishers include:
What are Class AB, BC, ABC?
This is responsible for the initial ignition of a fire.
What is Heat?
This is the city and state where the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire occurred?
What is Louisville, Kentucky?
Out of the 5 types of fires Zambelli employees are most likely to encounter these 2 types of fires.
What are Class A and D fires?
These fires are from flammable liquids and gas.
What are Class B Fires?
While using a fire extinguisher you should aim at this part of the fire.
What is the Base of the fire?
This is the percentage that of oxygen that most fires need.
What is 16 %?
This method is usually a system put in place to keep fire damage and loss to a minimum.
What is Fire Protection?
Zambelli employees can help eliminate the spread of a potential fire by doing this simple task.
What is disposing of waste accordingly?
(Housekeeping)
These fires form from sources such as electrical equipment or energized equipment.
What are Class C Fires?
After this point in the fire stage you can no longer use a fire extinguisher.
What is the Incipient Stage?
These are substances that acquire electrons from a fuel in a chemical reaction and release oxygen during combustion.
What are Oxidizers?
This fire made it mandatory that fire alarms in schools had to be directly wired to fire stations.
What is Our Lady of Angels?
Magnesium, Aluminum, Potassium and this type of metal are common sources of Class D Fires.
What is Titanium?