What kind of fire extinguisher is used on wood?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Type A.