Choosing the right extinguisher

[DamnYankee]

Won't most extinguishers work on a vehicle electrical fire though? I mean 12v is a little different than 120v.

[ff_jeff]

Won't most extinguishers work on a vehicle electrical fire though? I mean 12v is a little different than 120v.

An electrical fire is an electrical fire... as long as it is a class C extinguisher, it will work fine. We use water as firefighters, because we have big ass hoses flowing 140gpm+/-. But we don't get out the big hoses unless the car is an inferno. The reason why you want an ABC extinguisher on a car fire is because you can put out Gasoline, plastic, rubber, electrical, and pretty much whatever is burning in the vehicle. ABC's also don't splash like water and foam do. you hit the battery, or a puddle of fuel with foam you could splash it all over the place, making things allot worse. I good scenario is your truck. Say your battery catches fire for whatever reason. your gas tank is right there next to it. If you spray it with a dry chem(abc) it coats it with a powder and out goes any fire. With water or foam you could assist the fire spread to the fuel tank. Also after the fire is over and not allot of damage has been done... most dry chem will blow off with an air hose.