Three misunderstandings for use of vehicle fire extinguishers

40% of private cars are not equipped with fire extinguishers

Beijing Municipality requires fire extinguishers when licenses and vehicles are examined on new cars in Beijing. However, the reporter found during the investigation that 40% of private car owners did not provide fire extinguishers for the car. "When I bought a car, I took the 4S shop agent to handle the formalities. They temporarily found a fire extinguisher in the car and later took it away." Private car owner Ms. Liu said that when she was buying a car, the 4S shop was not free. She provided on-board fire extinguishers and she did not pay extra for fire extinguishers. The owners of Mr. Li and Mr. Chen also stated that they used the fire extinguisher to “pass through” when they examined the car.

Why don't you have a fire extinguisher in your car? Ms. Liu believes that self-ignition is often related to the neglect of maintenance of "old-age cars" and the private transformation of vehicles. They are buying new cars and are diligent in maintenance. They will not spontaneously ignite. Mr. Li stressed that the chance of spontaneous combustion of the vehicle is very small. Even if a fire extinguisher is equipped, it is not necessarily useful. It is better to buy a “self-ignition insurance”.

Half of owner does not know that the fire extinguisher has shelf life

In the survey, half of the car owners who gave the fire extinguishers said that it was not clear that the fire extinguisher had a shelf life. “Is the fire extinguisher not in use and will it expire?” Mr. Ding, the owner of the vehicle, questioned that the fire extinguisher is usually placed in the trunk with very few opportunities to use it. Therefore, it has been stored for a long time. A lot of car owners thought.

Jin Xuan, the Xuanwu District Fire Fighting Brigade, pointed out that most of the vehicle fire extinguishers are dry powder fire extinguishers. They are powered by liquid carbon dioxide or nitrogen to drive the dry powder fire extinguishing agent out of the fire. Its shelf life is one year. Every other year, the owner should check whether the gas in the fire extinguisher is leaking and whether the dry powder is agglomerated, so as to inflate the fire extinguisher or change the dry powder, otherwise the fire extinguisher over time will probably not spray dry powder, or the injection time will be greatly shortened. , directly affect the normal use.

There are three errors in the use of fire extinguishers

In the survey, only a very small number of private owners stated that they had used fire extinguishers personally when they participated in fire training. The remaining 90% of owners said that it is not clear how to properly use fire extinguishers. Jin Hao said that the owner of the fire extinguisher should avoid the following three errors.

Fight fire

Fire extinguishers can only be used to extinguish primary fires. To be effective, the timing must be grasped. This means that when the owner discovers that the car has a strange smell of smoke, he should immediately use a fire extinguisher to save. Otherwise he will see the fire and then save it, even if the volume is used again. The large fire extinguisher also became a "glass of water." The importance of fire-fighting depends on the size of the fire extinguisher itself.

Fire extinguishing head

When the owner of the fire extinguisher is using the fire extinguisher, he should not spray it to the surface of the flame. Instead, he should aim at the root of the flame and confirm that the flame has been extinguished before the fire extinguisher can be removed.

Car cover

For some people think that opening the hood will allow air to enter and make the fire even more prosperous. Jin Hao said that even if the hood is not opened, the air is still connected. When the hood is opened in case of fire, it is very important to identify the fire point at the first time.