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Contents 1 Fire classes in Europe 2 Class A & K 3 Table? 4 Classes

[edit] Fire classes in Europe

Im actually working on a training unit for voluntary firefighter trainees about fire extinguishers. As I am a German firefighter I do have to work with european standards. European "EN2" knows five fire classes:

• A: solid materials
• B: liquid or melting materials
• C: gas
• D: metal
• F: oil or fat

e.g.: a candle belongs to class B because it will melt after lighting it. Class E has been deleted (it's been a while...) because it is part of class A as there are always some solid materials on fire (electrical power does not burn!). According to this schema class F would originally belong to class B, it has been seperated because class F fire desire different extinguishing agents. BTW: IMO lighter affiliate to class C ;-) Greetings from Germany --91.97.89.5 19:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Class A & K

A lighter is not a class A fire because the fuel being combusted is a liquied or a gas not a solid.

Class K is a European classification for grease fire, the American classification for this kind of fire would be Class E.

Class E? i'm fairly positive that cooking oil falls under flammable liquid. I'm currently out of the country so i don't have access to any NIOSH manuals to back up my suspicion. anyone wanna fact check here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shaggorama (talk • contribs) 01:24, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

Class K is a little known US classification. A lighter (without fuel) is a Class A classification. The fuel inside is a Class B classification.DFurtman (talk) 09:01, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Table?

Can someone with the knowledge construct a conversion chart of different types of fire between Europe and US? --Voidvector 04:04, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I made a table, but I'm not sure how it would be best to work it into the article. Here it is. Add the code somewhere appropriate.

American	European/Australiasian
Class A	Class A
Class B	Class B
	Class C
Class C	Class E
Class D	Class D
Class K	Class F

--Alx xlA 00:24, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

chart looks just fine as it is.. no need to introduce it, it does itself. DFurtman (talk) 08:58, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Classes

In 1997 I was an intern at one of the U.S. National Laboratories. During orientation we had a safety seminar, and the instructor gave us this way to remember the most common U.S. fire classes (which I still remember):

TRASH
LUBRICANTS
ELECTRICAL

Jimpoz (talk) 06:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)