(General Fire is not a manufacture of General Fire Extinguishers)

If you are able to react to a fire when it starts - whether it starts in the kitchen, garage, or any other room in your home - chances are good that you can stop the fire with the right type of extinguisher.

Water Extinguisher

FFFP Foam

Before You Fight a Fire

Choosing the right extinguisher.

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Water is the fire fighting agent in this stainless steel stored pressure extinguisher with dent protecting black plastic boot. The cooling, soaking and penetrating 45-55 ft. stream and 50 sec. discharge time makes it a very effective for experienced operators for use on Class A fires.

FFFP Foam adds Class B fire fighting capability to the Class A effectiveness of this extinguisher with blue dent protection boot. The ALCOHOL RESISTANT fire fighting agent is effective fires in a wide variety of Class B materials such as alcohols, polar solvents, hydrocarbons and combinations such as gasahol.

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Wheeled Stored Pressure and Nitrogen Cylinder Operated Fire Extinguishers
 

Before You Fight A Fire

Fire Extinguishers are designed to fight small, developing fires. If a fire starts to burn out of control, it is not safe to try and extinguish it yourself.

Before you try to fight ANY fire, however small:

  • make sure everyone is leaving or has left the building
  • notify the fire department
  • make sure the fire is confined to a small area and is not spreading
  • make sure you have a clear, unobstructed escape route
  • make sure you already know how to use your fire extinguisher

If, while you're fighting the fire, the situation changes and the fire begins to spread or burn out of control GET OUT IMMEDIATELY! Don't fight the fire yourself.

If your clothing is on fire (and the floor is not), STOP, DROP and ROLL on the ground to extinguish the flames. If you are within a few feet of a safety shower or fire blanket, you can use these instead, but do not try to make it "just down the hall" if you are on fire. If one of your coworkers catches fire and runs down the hallway in panic, tackle them and extinguish their clothing.

NEVER try to fight a fire if:

  • the fire is no longer contained and starts spreading beyond where it started
  • you can't fight the fire with your back towards an open escape route
  • the fire could spread and block your only escape route
  • you don't have the right type of fire extinguisher
  • you don't know how to use your fire extinguisher

In any of these situations, CALL FOR HELP. Don't fight the fire yourself.

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NFPA and Other Safety Standards

All extinguishers comply with the recommendations of the national fire protection association and are tested and rated by underwriters laboratories or factory mutual systems to ANSI/UL specifications. To assist in complying with the national and local OSHA requirements, all nameplates contain required HMIS information.

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