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Understanding the Fire Triangle: Elements of Combustion

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Fire Triangle with Elements of Combustion. Fire Control procedure.

What is a Fire Triangle?

The fire triangle is a triangle of three main elements for a better understanding of the fire and control of it. This triangle shows the main elements that are essential for Combustion like oxygen/air, heat, and burning material/fuel.

Fire Elements

Three components of fire heat, air, and fuel are essential for fire. When we want to control on fire, we should control on any one component. Then we can control fire.

1. Oxygen/air

Oxygen/air is a very important component of fire. We can control fire to control the supply of oxygen/air. For disconnecting the air supply to the fire, we cover the fire by making a cover shield at the fire area. Some types of fire extinguishers make shields around the fire area like CO2 (Carbon dioxide) and foam-type fire extinguishers. We can use dry sand for this purpose. Some types of fire when we can’t use common water to control it like electrical fire. Then we use CO2 and foam-type fire extinguishers.

2. Heat/Temperature

Heat burns the material or fuel with the help of oxygen/air. If we control heat we can also control fire. Some fire extinguishers are designed to control heat like water-type fire extinguishers or direct water. Water controls the heat and stops the burning of material. We can’t use water on an electrical fire or petroleum fire.

3. Fuel/Burning material

The third pillar of this triangle is burning material. If we remove burning material from the fireplace we can control the fire. If the burning material is sold then we can remove or make a distance between the material and fire place. In the case of petroleum product burning material then we can’t make the distance between fireplace and burning material.

Importance of Fire Triangle

This triangle is very important to understand the fire strategy and control on-fire procedure with control fire component.

How do you break a fire triangle?

Some methods to remove one of the elements (Oxygen, Heat, and fuel) from the fire triangle.

  1. Applying water to remove heat
  2. Smothering with mineral soil to remove oxygen
  3. Construction fuel breaks ahead of fire to remove fuel

What Is a Fire Tetrahedron?

What is the definition of an Emergency?

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car in emergency whic define emergency situation

What is the emergency? The common definition of an Emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health (life), wealth(property), and the environment and requires immediate action to control it. Emergency and our thoughts. Always remember that an emergency is a critical situation and there are two main … Read more

Dealing with Fall Injuries

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a man fall from height

Fall injuries result in damage to muscles, bone fractures, spinal injury, and serious head injury and it can cause serious disability or death. Dealing with fall Injuries immediately is very necessary because it can be a big loss for victims. Causes of fall Injuries Difficulties and Germs Know the Victim’s Situation First Aid Procedure Transfer … Read more

Dealing with Crush Injuries

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a man crushed between two parts

Crush injuries result in damage to muscles and bones and it can cause serious disability. Dealing with Crush Injuries immediately is very necessary because it can be a big loss for victims. Causes of Crush Injuries Difficulties and Germs First Aid Procedure Note: In case of chest crush injury or spinal injury don’t do CPR … Read more

Chemical Handling

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a worker show best chemical handling procedure

1. Handling Chemicals Safely 2. Protection of Chemical’s Victim. 3. Check the victim’s Breathing 4. Decontamination of the Eyes. When dealing with eye contamination the aim is to disperse and dilute the chemical to clear eye. 5. Decontamination of the Body. 6. Controlling Risks 7. Following Up on an Accident Related Posts to Chemical Handling … Read more

First aid treatment for burn

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First aid procedure in case of wound

There are many reasons for burning like fire, electricity, boiling water or oil, friction, chemicals, and acids. First aid training in “first aid treatment for burn” is very necessary. The victim suffers severe pain in case of serious burns and skin red. It can cause shock. Germ diseases can be dangerous in this situation. Burn … Read more

External Bleeding

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First aid procedure in case of wound

Continuously bleeding from an injured area or wound is external bleeding. First aid for external bleeding is very necessary for the life of the patient. 1. Use Protection for yourself. Your safety should always come first before starting first aid. Check for any hazards before approaching the victim. Use gloves as a protective barrier for … Read more

CPR and defibrillation.

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Here are some important steps to follow in the safe CPR and defibrillation procedure. What is CPR? CPR stands for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation is an emergency lifesaving procedure. CPR is performed when the heart stops beating. What is defibrillation? Defibrillators are electromedical devices. It is used to apply an electric charge or current to the heart. … Read more

Wound First Aid

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A trained first aider making wound first aid

wound first aid is very necessary because wound incidents are very common and almost every person suffers from this. When starts bleeding from any part of the body. Due to a cut or other incident on the skin that is called a wound. After accidentally cutting or hitting something on the skin. The skin is … Read more