What’s on the Fire Extinguishers poster
A 6-row table: Class · Fuel · Use.
Fire classes by fuel. Using the wrong extinguisher can spread the fire or electrocute you.
- A — Wood, paper, cloth — Water, foam, powder
- B — Petrol, oil, paint — Foam, powder, CO₂
- C — Gases — Powder only
- D — Metals — Specialist powder only
- Electrical — Live equipment — CO₂ or powder — never water
- F / K — Cooking oil, fat — Wet chemical only
Never water on electrical or on a chip-pan fire. Water on burning oil erupts instantly into a fireball.
Questions about the Fire Extinguishers poster
- What’s on the Fire Extinguishers poster?
- A 6-row table: Class · Fuel · Use. Fire classes by fuel. Using the wrong extinguisher can spread the fire or electrocute you. A — Wood, paper, cloth — Water, foam, powder; B — Petrol, oil, paint — Foam, powder, CO₂; C — Gases — Powder only; D — Metals — Specialist powder only; Electrical — Live equipment — CO₂ or powder — never water; F / K — Cooking oil, fat — Wet chemical only. Never water on electrical or on a chip-pan fire. Water on burning oil erupts instantly into a fireball.
- Who is the Fire Extinguishers poster for?
- Fire Extinguishers belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning safety can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Fire Extinguishers poster?
- Know which one is in your building before there is a fire. Read this now. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Fire Extinguishers belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Fire Extinguishers?
- Carbon Monoxide, Household Chemicals and Child Safety at Home sit alongside Fire Extinguishers in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Carbon MonoxideHousehold ChemicalsChild Safety at Home
- Is the Fire Extinguishers poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Fire Extinguishers downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Fire Extinguishers poster print at?
- Fire Extinguishers is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Fire Extinguishers loses nothing.Printing guide
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