{"id":1313,"date":"2023-06-29T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T10:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:46:26","slug":"guidelines-for-using-extinguishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/2023\/06\/29\/guidelines-for-using-extinguishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for Using Extinguishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dry powder extinguishers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The approximate effective range of a 9kg unit is 4m &#8211; 5m.<\/p>\n<p>The powder cloud tends to interfere with the chemical reactions inside a flame thereby achieving extinguishment. The operator should stand back initially to allow the powder stream to fan out.<\/p>\n<p>Care should be taken not to direct the powder jet into the burning liquid as this would splash the liquid out of the container and spread the fire.<\/p>\n<p>For fire involving electrical equipment, try to get the powder to penetrate motor casings, switchboards etc.<\/p>\n<p>For gas fires direct the powder into the flame from behind the leak. The gas supply should be immediately cut off to avoid a gas build up. The use of an extinguisher on a gas flame should only be considered as a last resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry powder extinguishers: The approximate effective range of a 9kg unit is 4m &#8211; 5m. The powder cloud tends to interfere with the chemical reactions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innov8ions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innov8fs.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}