May 05, 2008
Amazingly enough, they aren’t all the same. In fact using the wrong one can make the fire worse and you’ll lose everything. Each extinguisher has a label with a letter coresponding to what kinds of fire it will be put. Preferably you’ll get one that has more than one letter on it.
A fires: paper, wood, cloth, dry items
B fires: oil, grease, gas and flammable liquids
C fires: TV, home appliances, basically electrical equipment.
Most people have ABC fire extinguishers because they tackle each one and you don’t have to worry about applying it to the wrong kind of fire. In an emergency that thought won’t be the first one through your head.
