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Refrences to validate the content should include NFPA 10 and NFPA 1001. Chief Dixon (talk) 16:01, 12 September 2009 (UTC) PLEASE NOTE EXCEPT FOR SOME CRITICAL APPLICATIONS HALON 1301 & 1211 IS BANNED GLOBALLY BY COUNTRIES THAT RATIFIED THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL, THE KYOTO AGREEMENT, THE PARIS ACCORD & THE KIGALI AMENDMENT TO THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL AND SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THIS PAGE AS A VIABLE FIRE EXTINGUISHING AGENT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:F011:3500:8917:66C:2541:6C4 (talk) 09:53, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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:
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)
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 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)
| 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) well the chat the wiki brings up is wrong in australia a flammable liquid fire is a class B not a class M as it says — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.169.222.205 (talk) 06:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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)
What is this the classification of? Is it the classification of the fire? or is it the classification of the fire extinguisher? From my impression, it is only the classification of the fire extinguisher (which is based on the fuel). I am not sure if that is fully applicable to the fire itself. --Voidvector (talk) 08:11, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I've gone through and changed the focus of the section titles to the actual classes of fires, as opposed to what letters of the alphabet the standards use. Standards change over time, and vary with language and locale, but the underlying science remains the same: An electrical fire is an electrical fire, regardless of whether you call it "Class C", "Class E", or something else. I'm sure there are other classification systems in the world, some of which might not even use English language. I feel the article was getting both burdened and very confused by focusing on letters. Indeed, it is not at all clear in some cases which standard a given statement is referring to. I've marked these for clarification. Hopefully this is an improvement. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 03:26, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Worldwide, some people use American to mean "of the Americas" (i.e. Argentina through Canada); others use it to mean "of the United States of America". Is it safe to assume that, because no other mention of standards elsewhere in the Americas is made, the column "American" refers to the standards observed throughout all American countries (except, of course, the EU Overseas Territories, like French Guiana) 195.229.241.177 (talk) 04:53, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
No, sorry. The standards quoted as "American" are set by US Government agencies. E123 (talk) 15:24, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Which fire class system does Canada use? United States or Europe? 97.75.177.149 (talk) 23:59, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
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under class k fire it is mentioned that a fine mist or fire blanket is used to extinguishes it. i am planing on adding a sentence or 2 about a wet chem fire extinguisher that is designed for grease fires. it works under a saponification process. i will add it later today Mattvoza (talk) 15:10, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Ive corrected a section in the combustible materials section that called dry chemical powders just "dry powder" which as the metals sections explains, those two terms aren't interchangeable, and added in a link to a guide to fire classes in australia.
Is there any reason not to expand a little bit on some of the fire classes, is it considered outside the scope of this specific article to talk about for example how surface area of the fuel can contribute to the heat release rate/fire growth of a combustible material fire (timber log vs woodchip vs sawdust)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PyroGrisk (talk • contribs) 04:47, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
The Fire control article largely duplicates the content here, but it is less-developed and has scant mention of anything outside the US. I propose that its contents be merged into the Fire class article here. Comments or suggestions? Reify-tech (talk) 15:45, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
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