FIRE SAFETY

FIRE SAFETY

Fire safety is the set of practices intended to prevent ignition of an uncontrolled fire,
and those that use used to limit the development effects of a fire after it starts.
 FIRE HAZARDS
 Fire hazard is a situation that increases the
likelihood of a fire or may prevent escape in
the event of a fire occurs. It is basically a
threat to fire safety.

 Common fire hazards include

 Cooking fire from unattended cooking.
 Electrical systems that are overloaded.
 Candles and other open flames.
 Leaking or defective batteries.
 Household appliances like boiling ring, hairdryer,
refrigerators, freezers etc.
FIRE HAZARDS CONTINUED
 CLASSES OF FIRE

 Not all fires are the same. Combustion may be classified into one or more of the
following classes of fire depending on the material that have or could be ignited.
 Based on the class or classes in which a burning fire belongs, the right fire
extinguisher agent and size will be selected to fight it.
 Classes of fire are
>> CLASS A >> CLASS B
>> CLASS C >> CLASS D
>> CLASS K
 CLASS A FIRE

 Class A fires are where ordinary

materials like wood, clothing
material, paper is burning.
 CLASS B FIRE

 Class B fires are fires whose fuel is

combustible gases or liquids such as
gasoline (petrol), cooking gas(butane
and propane mixture), paint thinner
and solvents like nail polish remover.
 CLASS C FIRE

 Class C fires are fires involving

energized electrical equipment
such as computers, servers,
television, motors, transformers and
so on.
 If the electric power in this class of
fire is removed, the fire becomes
one of the other classes of fire.
 CLASS D FIRE
 Class D fires involves combustible
metals like lithium, magnesium,
potassium, zirconium, titanium and
so on.
 Class D fires are not common
because are good conductors of
heat. Therefore heat is conducted
away from metal hot spot that heat
of combustion cannot be
maintained.
 Metal fires are a hazard when the
metal is in the form of sawdust or
machine shavings which will ignite
more rapidly than metal blocks.
 CLASS K FIRE

 Class K fires involves cooking oils and grease

like animal fats and vegetable oil.
 Class K fire is similar to Class B fire as they
both which involves flammable
liquids/gases. The distinguishing factor is that
Class K fire fuels ignite at a higher
temperature compared to Class B fire fuels.
 FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 The safest way to deal with fire is to prevent it in the first place.
 Water is usually the most accessible and commonest fire retardant but not all fires
can be quenched with water.

 Instead of water, using the appropriate fire extinguisher for a particular class of fire
is the most effective.