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Precautions While Fighting A Fire
When fighting a fire: 1. Always stay upwind: It protects you from heat, smoke etc. It allows you to go closer…
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Using An Extinguisher
So, now that you have decided how to fight a fire, and, what kind of extinguishers to use, lets see, how to…
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Types Of Fire Extinguishers
Water Based Foam Based CO2 Based CFC Based Dry Chemical Based Water Based These are most effective on Class A fires.…
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Conditions Needed For A Fire
For a fire to take shape (as well as continue), the following three conditions should be met: 1. A combustible material…
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Uneven Distribution Of Incidents
Incidents of fires are usually not evenly distributed. There are higher number of fires during: ● Summer season: Due to higher…
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Fire
Fire is a very good servant, but, a very bad master. As long as fire is under our control, it…
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Tornadoes, Typhoons, Cyclones
These are winds of high-speed, many times accompanied by heavy rainfall. These cause structural damage, snapped overhead wires, and, possibility…
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Prevention of Flood
Sometimes, it might not be possible to prevent a flood, even if we know that its about to get flooded. However, there…
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Floods
Floods refer to huge amount of water reaching land in a short span of time, causing land surface to be…
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Volcanos
Volcanoes refer to eruption of hot molten lava from below the surface of the earth. As plates move away from…