Fire Fighting Training.

3 February 2011

Our fire fighting training consisted of looking at videos on how fires are classified, controlled and behave. The type of fires include electrical, metal, liquid and solid (wood, paper ect). The labels on the fire extinguishers show what type of fires you can control with it. The blue label is a dry powder. The black label is gas. The black label is foam.

In the practical training we learned that you should never turn your back on the fire, always keep low to the floor as possible. You should also use your left hand to navigate to the nearest door if vision is limited with lots of smoke created by the fire. We also had to use the extinguisher in the correct way to control a fire by using the PASS method (PIN (remove), AIM, SQUEEZE, SWEEP (side to side))