First Fire Extinguishers Australia

Welcome to First Fire Extinguishers! We are here to provide you with information regarding fire safety and fire fighting equipment. Read up on the latest products for business or home related fire safety.

This site is designed to help you understand and comply with fire safety regulations, as well as, to explore the various equipment you can use to combat a fire related tragedy.

When your life may depend on it, you don’t want to be caught without proper equipment and knowledge. Preparation is the key to a succesful emergency plan.

The discovery of fire not only taught humans the way of cooking but also introduced irony in every human life. Fire is a basic necessity for survival, yet it is also the deadliest and unpredictable foe. Since the early 1800’s man has looked for ways to protect home and hearth from fire related disasters and injury. It was at this time that the first fire extinguisher was patented, it was more of an explosive device that needed to be triggered by fuse to scatter the flame retarding liquid. The modern and portable ones we use was patented in 1818 to British Captain George William Manby. A fire has three elements: heat, oxygen and fuel. The heat starts it all bringing any material to the point of igniting, A fuel source supports the burning, while the oxygen sustains the fire for spreading and doing greats damage.

Since that time fire extinguishers are active safety devices that are required in the home, work place, restaurants mostly all places susceptible to fire. These are a person’s first line of defense in containing fire. There are 4 types (classes) of fire extinguishers which are used for a particular type of fires. These are indicated on the cylinder as picture/labeling in the new generation extinguishers or as geometrical and letter designation in older cylinder versions.