Water covers fuel, which keeps it from coming in contact with oxygen.
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Water also cools the fuel to below its combustion temperature. And if there's enough pressure, it blows the flames away from the fuel.
The three elements of the fire triangle that must be present are Heat, Oxygen, and Fuel. This has recently been changed though from the fire triangle to the fire tetrahedron. This includes Heat, Oxygen, and Fuel as well. But, it also contains a fourth, chemical reaction.
If you remove one of the three things needed to make a fire (fuel, heat, or oxygen), the fire will not be able to sustain itself and will go out. These components work together in a fire triangle to create and maintain a flame.
You can remove heat from a fire by cutting off its oxygen supply, using a fire extinguisher, or dousing it with water. Removing the heat source or covering the fire with a non-flammable material can also help extinguish the fire by reducing heat.
Fire goes out when one or more elements of the fire triangle (heat, fuel, oxygen) are removed. This can happen through extinguishing methods like smothering the fire to remove oxygen, cooling the flames to reduce heat, or removing the fuel source to starve the fire.
Water removes oxygen from a fire by suffocating it. When water is applied to a fire, it turns into steam, which displaces the oxygen around the fire. This reduction in oxygen levels prevents the fire from continuing to burn.
Sprinklers in a factory remove heat from the fire triangle.
The fire triangle consists of three components - Heat, Oxygen and Fuel. All three MUST exist together for a source of ignition to start a fire, which in effect is a chemical reaction. If you remove one of these elements, then the reaction can not occur and hence, no fire.
oxygen, heat, and fuel
The sides of the fire triangle are: Oxygen, heat and fuel. Reduce or remove any one of these and you control or extinguish the fire.
The sides of the fire triangle are: Oxygen, heat and fuel. Reduce or remove any one of these and you control or extinguish the fire.
the fire blanket removes one side of the fire triangle
oxygen
It depends upon what kind of extinguisher it is. Water, for example, removes the heat from a fire by turning into steam and by removing available air/oxygen from the flames. Other extinguishers remove the oxygen from the fire or change the chemical reaction to stop the fire from converting the fuel to a flammable substance with the available heat.
First you need to look at the fire triangle. In the fire triangle (consisting of heat, fuel, air) the firefighter removes one of the sides of the triangle, thus extinguishing the fire. There is also the fire tetrahedron which has the addition of a chemical chain reaction. The most common way to put out a fire is with water. This cools the fire and then also helps to remove the air with the expansion of the water into steam. Some departments use a wetting agent, or foam, added to the water. This helps to remove the fuel and air from the equation. Lastly, depending on the fire, a chemical is used that helps to disrupt the amount of air the fire has to burn and smothers it. This could be a dry chemical from and extinguisher or even a gas from a CO2 extinguisher.
Because if you remove any one of the three elements - the fire cannot continue (or start).
The four elements of the triangle symbols are fire, water, air, and earth.
Removing trees from a forest fire is called a "fire break" or "fire line" and it provides a separation of the unburned fuel from the fire. Thus, a fire break affects the "fuel" leg of the fire triangle by denying fuel to the fire.