Fire Safety: The Basics in Fire Safety

Fire Safety is one of most useful and very important tool that everyone should be aware.

When you're at home, in your work place, in school, or in anywhere else being aware and equipped with the knowledge is an outright leverage in case of any fire incident.

To understand Fire Safety we must know what we are dealing with and to begin with..

How about we start with What is FIRE?

To produce fire it needs three components Fuel, Oxygen, and Heat or source ignition. One cannot sustain without the other and this basic concept of the relationship of the components is the very essence on how to deal with a fire.

We mention fuel and they are of many kinds, but classified in three distinct states.

You probably have noticed some letters in the markings of fire extinguishers in your school, work place, or if you have one at home. They are actually classification of the type of fire they can be used for. Fires are classified by Letters A,B,C, and Class D fires.

Now we know how they are classified but?

"How do we prevent a fire?"

To find means to prevent and control a fire we must understand how it works. We go back to the Fire Triangle, as we have mentioned. In order to create and sustain a FIRE, it needs its three components Fuel, Heat, and Oxygen.

"TO PREVENT A FIRE WE NEED TO REMOVE OR ISOLATE ONE COMPONENT."

The most effective way to prevent a fire is to keep our sources of fuel separate from our sources of HEAT or ignition, if we can achieve this we can prevent ignition or the start of a fire.

There is little that we can do about oxygen , it is ever present in the air we breathe.

Think about how we segregate sources of Fuel and Heat at work, in school, and at home.

Still more to this post soon.... :D

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