It depends on the fire type. There are 4 classes of fire extinguishers:
class A: paper, wood, cardboard, and most plastics. class B: flammable or combustible liquids such as gasoline, kerosene, grease and oil. class C: electrical equipment, such as appliances, wiring, circuit breakers and outlets. class D: combustible metals, such as magnesium, titanium, potassium and sodium
The extinguisher's rating is marked on the container. They are also colour coded for the specific type of fire.
A water-type extinguisher (Class A, or USA class ABC) is used for putting out a fire of wood, paper, cloth and other ordinary combustibles.
You can also separate the fuel from the fire (remove non-burned fuel so the fire won't continue spreading).
Water on wood increases the ignition temperature needed for the fire to continue spreading, as heated water turns to steam, absorbing the heat of the fire.
For thousands of years water has been used to extinguish fires. As scientifically proven, plain water is the most inefficient media that can be applied to a fire. Most fires no matter what flammable material originates from, very quickly achieve temperatures that immediately evaporate any effect water may have on fires. In order to achieve any progress under an expanding incipient fire, a very large supply of water would have to be available in order to extinguish said fire and obviously a portable extinguisher, which in it its largest capacity only carries 2.5-gallons, would be useless in a growing fire potential.
Therefore, the best extinguisher available in the world is still the FireStopper® branded fire extinguishers, which are the only fire extinguishers that not only work on wood, which is a class A designated fire according to the international fire classification, but also are effective on all the other classes of fire such as B-C-D & K. This is the only portable extinguisher in the world proven to deliver this level of safety and efficacy.
Wood is one of the simpler cases, in terms of fire. You can use any fire extinguisher on burning wood. Water, foam, powder, CO2, all work.
Type A.
A type A or Class A fire extinguisher is used on a Class A fire, that is, one involving "ordinary combustibles" such as paper, cloth, wood and small amounts of plastics.
Type A is used for combination fires: TRASH, WOOD & PAPER.
It puts out wood and paper fires.
A type A is for wood, paper, cloth and trash.
it takes out wood paper and textiles
A burning box of wood or paper would require a type A extinguisher.
A Class A fire extinguisher is the least expensive and most easily available type of extinguisher to use on wood or paper fires. They are normally filled with water or water-based foam and pressurized with air.
Yes, a wood fire is Class A and an ABC can be used on a Class A, B or C fire.
Soda water is used on general fires (wood, paper, etc). Foam is used on petrol or oil fires, to avoid spreading the fire. Carbon dioxide is used where there is electrical equipment, and there is a risk of electrocution. Then there is dry powder which is classed as a multi-purpose extinguisher.
Class A is for ordinary combustibles like cloth, paper, wood, rubber, plastic.
A water fire extinguisher (called a "Class A"extinguisher) is only useful on fires involving wood, paper, cardboard, and most plastics. An extinguisher labelled "Class B" is for fires involving flammable liquids, and "Class C" is for electrical equipment fires.
Fire extinguishers are marked by letter and color. These identify the contents of extinguisher (water, foam, wet chemical, e.g.), and fire classification.(paper and wood, combustible metals, e.g).