How a Fire Extinguisher Works

[etproductions661]

got here from nukes

[iAmPwny]

i drew a diagram of this in school and my stupid elementry school principle cough cough Dr payne. thought it was a drwing of a bomb and i got suspended

[DannyV1991]

how many PSI is that thing?

no seriously!

[MANDURA24]

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[creepyguy3]

how fire extinguisher work....

POOF gone

[BoerX]

What you should say, toggle witht he switch, dont empty the whole extinguisher at one time, make "shoots" with about 1 second length. but evrything else, great ;)

[april76301]

Go fuck yourself howstuffworks... -.-

[SpecializedChild462]

@april76301 I am not trying to be a stalker or anything based on why you blocked me but I just saw this but why are you trolling fire extinguisher videos? I figured out why you blocked me. Honestly if your kitchen was on fire or something wouldn't you wish you had a fire extinguisher? Trust me i am a pyro too and I burn things in my backyard all the time but I always put it out.

[april76301]

@SpecializedChild462 I remember you from another video but i cant find that video.So i dont know where your getting the stalker thing and such... Also yes i blocked you but now that you mention it i will unblock you i suppose.When ever i am arguing with people on youtube i block them most of the time so they dont say crap on my channel but i can in fact remove such comments quickly.But it does save me time by blocking them instead.Also on the fire extinguisher trolling thing.

[april76301]

@SpecializedChild462 I in fact find it offensive when ever people put out fires... So i would not consider it trolling i'm just expressing the way i feel.Also when ever i am burning something i'm extremely safe about it.I'm near a sink 99.9% of the time.Plus well in the very rare chance something does get out of control i can use pyrokinesis and put it out.I dont need water or a fire extinguisher pretty much all the time.

[SpecializedChild462]

@april76301 well you can't leave it burning forever especially without a pit around it and i highly doubt that an imaginary power would work therefore you need to use a type of extinguishing method before it gets out of control. anyeays I guess you hate the fire department then. But okay yes I have a seperate power (halon) and you are fire. so yes we then do have a reason to hate each other in imaginary terms but in real life we should be nice and just get the fuck along!

[april76301]

@SpecializedChild462 I dont like putting out fire but sometimes i have to.

[april76301]

@SpecializedChild462 Weirdly enough your pretty much exactly like me in personality except your a girl.I checked your profile and thats what it seems like...

[SpecializedChild462]

@april76301 sorry I wasn't trying to argue with you. i just assumed that you were lying about the volcano thing when your friend fell into it. BTW it won't stop people from replying to your comments in other peoples videos but that isn't why I did this.

just please can we get along and be nice even though you are fire and i am halon?

[april76301]

@SpecializedChild462 I'm serious pyrokinesis is a real abilty if your trained well enough you can ignite and de-ignite things with your mind.Also well to be honest your minorly confusing... Halon? The chemical agent Halon? Wtf... Yes i know blocking people will not stop them from replying to you on videos.It stops them mostly on your channel.Also yes we should get along this is all just silly.I dont even know anymore why most of this started.

[SpecializedChild462]

@april76301 Good idea and yes i do mean the halon fire extinguisher. i am very weird and I like halon! :D It is very clean and leaves no mess but it can also cause asphyxiation and even halon poisoning. But of course I am not stupid enough to go dump a halon extinguisher on my friends! idk i'm just weird! It's usually fire and ice but in my book it's fire and halon.

[april76301]

@SpecializedChild462 k

[jumanjalepeno]

@april76301 you're merely a joke in life if you think fire is god's gift to earth or some shit like that? and pyrokinetiwutever is bullshit you big flamer lol

[april76301]

@jumanjalepeno Well god gave me the abilty... But gods gift to earth is not fire... Also im not a joke in life becuase im not the one trolling here .And well i must say myself your trolling is well pretty bad i recommend you go work on it... Also pyrokineis is not fake... Its a real abilty

[StormChaseTN]

This thing saved my house last night. Was cooking something in a toaster oven when it caught on fire. Fire extinguishers do sit around for a while.. but you never know when they could save your property or even your life. That "when" was last night for me. Thank god for these ingenious devices.

[rmpinkcorp]

he is the guy who made the milk jug thing isnt he? Type it in.

[5540211]

arsch loch

[irelandcool1]

this guy is better then howcast and ehow 

[potatoman08]

Marshall Brain

[xerphpsy]

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[HeLLsGamersexcalibuR]

Do a vid on nhow babys work.

[MasterOfChaos101]

Why must this have the original YouTube video player? >_>

[keegan47401]

do they still make fire extinguishers that spray water?

[VideoColorado2010]

your extingusher use powder not water

[SamusAranRox]

they need to make fire extinguishers that use liquid nitrogen... That would work!

[mcraregreat234543]

@SamusAranRox nah liquid oxygen would work best :D boom

[Musicposter4you]

Don't need a fire extinguisher, just dip your penis in there.

[mcraregreat234543]

@Musicposter4you Anyone for deep fried sausage.

[atesting12345]

extinguisher indicator is in the red....

[bestSVMS]

thats a not so great yard

[fumfrb]

isn't it just compressed liquid nitrogen

[yazuak]

@fumfrb No, that would be too dangerous. And its kind of hard to compress liquid nitrogen, seeing as how its compressed nitrogen.

[firemartUK]

Useful little vid

[superxxxx1]

what things did u use to make it soooo flamebal??

[ubercharger9000]

you can use baking soda because it releases carbon dioxide

[QueenIsLove39]

@ubercharger9000 kosher salt works well too

[ubercharger9000]

*tip* NEVER NEVER NEVER pour water on a grease (vegetable oil) fire!!!

[xboxliveman68]

@ubercharger9000 i did that a few weeks ago while frying an egg the pan went up in smoke holy CRAP!!!!!

[jonasldg]

i stopped the video when i typed this.

a fireetinguisher works like this fire uses oxygen to burn and a fireextinguisher sucks oxygen and thats why the fire goes of

[Stewie533]

never aim directly at the fuel. you run the risk of actually blowing the fuel out of the container and help spread the fire...

[jomes31]

ya you can see that in the video i hella loled

[rileyts33]

what fucking nerds..

[lynxiness]

hmm i've always wanted to know how to use a fire extinguisher. i don't think i heard before this about the 'pin' thing.

[tanghohim]

LOL! "The COOLEST thing in the world"...

[NPHCCreations]

if you wanna know how to put a fire out the right way we have a video made in Alaska that will teach you! Click on our name to see out videos and watch it. Its good

[ceberusdoggy]

lol this is simple as hell

[cdandgey]

what is that gas? that is the main point.

[smartepants777]

In the fire extinguisher? Usually CO2.

[TJvigilante]

Actually most common fire extinguishers today are a dry chemical, not CO2 gas...it helps them put out more than just a paper fire by smothering the fire rather than displacing oxygen in the atmosphere. It's more efficient in an open-air environment where more oxygen just rushes back in to the still-hot fuel and reignites it.

[THEUPTOWNKID181]

@TJvigilante

"The compressed gas escapes, and shoot out the dry chemical".

He never mentioned CO2.

[TJvigilante]

@THEUPTOWNKID181 You're responding to a comment I made back when they didn't automatically add who I'm responding to. Go back over the comments until you see the point made the comment, not just the "top rated" comments spot, and you'll see the post I'm responding to.

[donaldjr1969]

For what it's worth, the pressurizing gas in a dry chemical extinguisher is usually nitrogen.

[isosarista]

We all KNOW ELIDE FIRE EXTIGUISHER BALL IS MUCH MUCH easier

[fxtonka]

any one notice he has mostly used it already (0:37)

[uut0]

fire acctually needs 5 things to excist not 3

[justinpinoy1234]

wats the other 2?

[uut0]

fire needs:

oxygen

fuel

heat

katalysator

mix(i dunno wut it is in englisch but i ment the fuel/oxygen percentage)

btw why gave me thumbs down ppl i was right

[fxtonka]

you dont know what your talking about there are 3 things fire needs : fuel ,heat,oxygen

nothing else maybe you learn from others instead of thinking you know some thing

[uut0]

u know the powder for coffee that gives the milky taste try ligthing it when its on the table, you wont succeed if you let it fly through the air it will light.

so you'll need something else then only oxygen heat and fuel, that are the other 2 things i said

[fxtonka]

what ever mate your just another know it all

[OmniPresent]

Your a freaking moron...

Firie needs 3 things only. Fuel (ie. Gas), Oxygen, and a Heat source (ie. Flame)

The reason your powder sugar (ie. Splenda) doesn't light on fire on the table is due to the fact that you have a over riched ratio. More fuel then Oxygen thus it can't burn. When you throw it in the air, its allowed to spread out allowing the ratio to come down and allow it to catch fire. If you shoot it out of a potato gun then the ratio changes due to compression ratios and such.

[Zaban94]

The powdered creamer is not a fuel therefore it doesn't light.

[uut0]

it burns if you let it fly through the room, if you want then try it but dont set yourself on fire :P

[TJvigilante]

Oxygen, heat and fuel. That's it. Aerating a powder exposes more of the fuel(the creamer powder) to more oxygen in the air via increased surface area. Add a little bit of heat and you have a flammable, even explosive combination.

[TJvigilante]

No need for a catalyst...a catalyst is merely a chemical source of one of the three ingredients, either an accelerant(oxygen), heat or fuel.

[uut0]

try igniting sugar you would fail. add ash and you can light it :D

[TJvigilante]

It's still just fuel, oxygen and heat. You can burn sugar with a hotter flame, the ash merely reduces the amount of energy required to burn the sugar. A catalyst is NOT necessary to create an exothermic reaction. In the end it's still just the big three.

[SafetyFirstFire]

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[andallweretaken]

oh and anyone who says different.. ur dumb.. notice when he first trys putting it out.. you see him fail at it and just blow fire out of it...he used used way to much extinguishing agent and barley got the task done.. ive put out propane fire 15 times that size with less... go ask your local fire dept. most of them do fire extinguisher training classes

[andallweretaken]

omg ur retarded.. first off ti depends on your type of fule, second.. that was oil based... your too close to start with..3 with oil based fire.. u fuckign aim at the liquid especially as clsoe as you are your just goign to blwo the fule aorudn make a bigger mess and push fire around... yes you aim at the base of the fire.. and start like atleast 4 feet away and work your way in sweepign back and forth ina pretty fast movement... go take entry lvl fire fighting.. didiot

[TJvigilante]

Go take entry level spelling...jesus.

[garycalgary]

i tripped on a step on the bus in elementary and in front of 500 kids i set off the fire extinguisher

btw i find some vids on youtube completely useless but this i really like. because it's informative

[Dousch]

Why go to school when you can watch howstuffworks.

[BasslineFracture]

@Dousch cause it doesnt tell you about the different types of extinguisher for a start!

[randomguy652]

@Dousch WIN.

[MrHampus99]

@Dousch Becuase the school is important

[rafael44p]

@Dousch Why go to school..... becuz school (where i live) haves around 200 of those we kinda play with them...

[saifmag]

AND THATS HOW IT WORKS LOL

[uchihahaclan]

can a fire extinguisher be reuse???

[blackxout86]

No. A fire extinguisher can only be used once until it runs out.

[andallweretaken]

depends..actually.. wate fire extinguishers are jsut filled with water to a certant lvl and then seal and pummped up with compressed air... u can resuse those over and over.. checmical extinguishers... you ahve to send back to manufacturer where there tested and refilled

[CSharpFan]

Sure. You can refil them.

[bestSVMS]

use gasoline

[bangous]

poopie on the face!

[bbender2008]

If you had a fire extinguisher handy, you just pull the pin and put it out.

[cmichael442]

when i wsa 13, my bro 19 we had a Fire extinguisher fight they looked just like the one being used here, powerder every where lol for hundreds of feet there was nothing but white powder. good times.

[GrimOnions]

ooooh interesting!

[Perkfire]

It's not the size of the fire that causes it to spread, it's the fuel of the fire and the extinguisher used. That's why it's important to use the proper extinguisher. Water will spread a liquid fire...gasoline, oil, grease, etc. That's why an all purpose extinguisher, or an ABC extinguisher is dry chemical (a powder). A= ordinary combustibles (paper, wood, etc) B= electrical, C= liquid, D= flammible metals. Water will not spread a type A fire but you wouldn't want to use it on the others.

[skittleboy15]

Thanks for burning down my house Perkfire. In real life, B = liquid fuels and C = electrical.

[taliban0king]

get a fire extinguisher grenade arasaftey(dot)com

[Perkfire]

What do you think is happening when you put water on a fire? The water turns to steam becuase it's absorbing the heat from the fire, thus the fire goes out. There is even a calculation to figure it out, a fire X wide by X long = Y amount of water to put it out.

A dry chemical extinguisher smothers (removes the oxygen) a fire. A water based extinguisher removes the heat.

[jojo2bubble]

whats the thing that comes out...its not water..but is it like a chemical?

[deauxwolf]

Yes it is powder this is a small one but you can get bigger one's hope i helped!

:-)

x

[xerxes199]

It's basically a mix of different kinds of salts. Endotherm reactions including the salts then reduces the heat necessary to keep the reactions going.

[ExperimentalArmy]

On the small ones they use foam, on the larger ones and re-usable ones they use Co2 or Halon.

[2jztoker]

"a fire extinguisher" man shut the fuck up pussy u sound likea bitch. let it BURN pussybitch

[guitar23man23]

i wonder what you'll be saying when your home catches on fire.

i'm pretty sure you won't be saying, "let it burn", pussybitch.

[JuliBoyTelThem21]

thats so gay

[MUSLIMBOYA]

its so fun like do a drive by with 1

[blackmaxima]

actually, most extinguishers don't have a compressed gas cylinder inside. it's just the agent (here, ABC powder) under pressurized nitrogen. pressing the lever opens up the valve and the agent is discharged. BIG extinguishers are operated by cartridges, but they look much different than what we're used to seeing. the cartridge is on the outside and the hose comes out of the bottom.

[kmed1an]

tiki tortch fuel or karosine probably.

[Spocko000]

What's the liquid that he set on fire?

[BTdin6088]

In Italy we don't use little fire extinguishers in buildings, minimum is 6Kg. A medium or big fire extinguisher is better!

[chechnya]

We also have fire codes in the United States that require medium to large sized fire extinguishers. We also have laws and codes that require fire sprinklers which work so much better at fighting larger fires.

[Njmodel]

Has anyone heard of the Home Hero Fire Extinguisher? If so what are your thoughts on it?

[InformationCenter]

Look at the fire extinguisher at 00:35 its empty. How does it work then it nedds to be pressuried.

[apasial]

DAMN YOU MARSHAL BRAIN!

[cjmitz]

yh and this video is a year old so things do change mofos

[georgemaxwell137]

Nice idea, but a couple of problems:

1) Most extinguishers nowadays (especially small powder units like the Kiddie) don't use gas cartridges - they're "stored pressure" models.

2) The demo shows a dry powder extinguisher being used on a cooking oil fire. Dry powder extinguishers aren't recommended for grease or cooking oil fires (class f) becuase they have no cooling properties and tend to blow the burning grease about without extinguishing it.

[GotIt123]

Bad editing. When he pulls the pin the guage is reading empty.

Anyway the Kiddie line is crap. Buy an Amerex or Ansul. Its kinda funny how the same people tell you to buy the largest ext. you can but then only do these small training burns. They also only show ABC on class b and dont let people see how ineffective dry chem is on a seated class A(like a couch or trash fire).

[chechnya]

It doesn't say empty, says recharge mr. knowitall. You don't sound very smart either. Kidde products are perfectly good.

[GotIt123]

I have had kiddie heads slap off when they fall of of the engines.

I dont sound smart? Based on what, not liking shitty products that are crap when I can get a ansul or amerx that will take a beating.

dumbass..

[sspoke]

its just a sprayer m8 nothing else it sprays to stop fire I would use sand its much better at stoping fires much quicker

[blackmaxima]

Most companies won't recharge Kidde extinguishers with plastic valves, even if they're "rechargeable", because the threads wear out and leak.

Amerex is great, Buckeye is great too. Ansuls is good, but I've seen their valves get stuck open when the extinguisher is used.

[InformationCenter]

Acuallty is does say EMPTY thats a unit thats a NFPA that may not be recharged. If you do it will blow.

I would know I work for Sigler.

[depressedpretzull]

you are all gay this is stupid

[dingodoodles]

what a great idea to have instructional videos on how stuff works. thanks! I appreciate that.

[mfd6811]

if you aim it at the fuel it will make the fire spread

[5675879]

if you are close it will but 6 feet back or little more will put the fire out faster then aiming at the flames Tim

[jughed1]

you aim at the fuel because you are trying to eliminate one part of the fire triangle. listen to the video, it needs fuel, air, and heat.

most extinguishers work by smothering the fire, the powder removes the air/oxygen and the fire goes out. even if the fuel spreads the power will coat it and prevent it from burning.

a water extinguisher will spread the fuel but only because most fuels float on water

[InformationCenter]

Not really depend on how you srapy it.

[GotIt123]

Ya I use a APW for my Bar'b'que. But the grease on that is so little its just spread out over a large surface area on the grill so it does not spread or flare that much. And t seems to work better when it is at 100 psi. Go figure.

[InformationCenter]

Well when i read the commet above my last one I was thinking they were talking about a water/loaded stream. I was talki ng about a water mist unit.

[GotIt123]

O, dont get me wrong I'm not suggesting using it for anyone else, its kinda dumb but its works okay for me. I use a little Drench it too(after the meat has been removed from that part of the grill) so its not just H20.

How well do those water mist ext. work on class B or k? I thought most used deionized water?

[InformationCenter]

They work great. I'm a fire explorer so I sprayed all kinds od extinguishers even a class D and a class F.

[InformationCenter]

They work great. I'm a fire explorer so I sprayed all kinds od extinguishers even a class D and a class F.

[GotIt123]

Lucky bastard! I am still trying to get my hands on a copper class D. But we will ever get any more class D exts.

I want to get a water mist for my burn pile, the water cans that I have just scatter the leaves. So far I just use a garden pesticide sprayer(mist wand) with dish soap or what ever class A I can sneak out of the station. LOL

[InformationCenter]

The best extinguisher I used world be a fast flowed extinguisher. I had them explode on me before. Have have a 90% discount off on recharge asll extinguishers.

[GotIt123]

I heard that the water mist exts.(at least the Amerex ones) need a special air adaptor to re-pressurize. Do you know if this is true, becuase that would probably keep me from buying one. I doubt they would sell me the adaptor, I guess the whole point is to keep the recharging at the stores.

[InformationCenter]

Yeah they do need one. I belive if you use one they just give you one. Call on eof your fire extinguisher disturbors.

[nxnicolexn]

does it smell after u use it

[anfocassie]

fire extinguisher plays an important role in people's life. Fire terrible.

[sparty732]

how gay are u lol

[brainquest72]

GOOD EDUCATIONAL VIDEO

[aggelosPSK]

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