SCENARIO: You are the ONLY person on the road. You drive up on a diesel truck on
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SCENARIO: You are the ONLY person on the road. You drive up on a diesel truck on its side with smoke bellowing from underneath it laying against a large hill of sand. You see a DOT placard with the number of 1403 on the rear and side of the truck. The fire is not too bad and you have a class A fire extinguisher in your car with you that you can easily put the fire out with. The driver is smoking and not saying anything but to PLEASE save his truck. There is a ditch with water about 4 feet deep and he has 5 gallon buckets on the truck which is perfect for putting out a fire. There is a grey gravel like substance on the ground and catches fire as well. The fires are not too large for a one person extinguishing. What do you do? In 10-15 slides minimum, and the use of the 3 urls (CAMEO, MARPLOT, and ALOHA) and the one below, give all the information you can find on this situation. Your ERG is PARAMOUNT and the url below is another ERG type help site. Give all steps you would take. Also, THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT- DO NOT HAVE HELP WITH THIS FROM CLASSMATES!! ANY INFORMATION USED, NO MATTER HOW SMALL MUST, MUST. MUST BE CITED WITH AUTHOR, DATE, PAGE NUMBER AS DIRECTED BY 6th EDITION APA FORMAT. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2005-149/pdfs/2005-149.pdf
Explanation / Answer
There are three types of fire extinguishers for solid, liquid and gas.
1. Water Fire Extinguishers:
It is cheap and most widely used fire extinguisher. Usually for Class A fires and not suitable for Class B (Liquid) fires and / or where electricity is involved.
2. Foam Fire Extinguishers:
More expensive than water at the same time more versatile. Usually for Classes A & B fires. Foam spray extinguishers are not recommended for fires involving electricity, but are safer than water if inadvertently sprayed onto live electrical apparatus
3. Dry Powder Fire Extinguishers:
This is ‘multi-purpose’ extinguisher, as it can be used on classes A, B & C fires. Best for running liquid fires (Class B). It will efficiently extinguish Class C gas fires, it is dangerous to extinguish a gas fire without isolating the gas supply first. Special powders are available for class D metal fires
Keeping the above points in mind, first pay attention to the surrounding places where some solid substance are spreadout which can easily catch fire. So use water extinguisher extensively (cheep and best for solids) on the solids which will reduce the fire catching effects. And usually for the diesel truck, the best is CO2 extinguisher (since CO2 extinguishers are used for class B and C fires).
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