Amazing facts about  Water  as fire extinguisher - Fire Safety Training
Channel: Best Places
Date: 2022-01-10

You Should Watch This! Amazing Secret of Water  | Amazing facts as Extinguishing Media | #Fire                                                 you should know the amazing secret and some amazing facts  behind the  efficiency of water as firefighting extinguishing media and how to fight fire with water?
Water is a universal #fire extinguishing media but it is very important to use water in a proper manner during firefighting to avoid water damages due to water. We know that water is an effective fire extinguisher but can we take full advantage of its total efficiency?
The answer is in NO, we cannot utilize the full efficiency water as extinguishing media. According to one research on the use of water in structural #firefighting, it was concluded that we utilize only 10 to 15 percentage of the total efficiency of water as a #extinguisher. One should know the following fact to make full utilization of water efficiency as an extinguisher.
• It is available at 0 degrees Celsius and boiling point is 100 degrees Celsius
• Latent heat of fusion:  143.4 Btus per pound ( ice at 0 degrees to water at 0 Degree)
• #Amazing facts that that make water efficient extinguishing #media . first one is The specific heat of water is 1.0 Btus per pound ( for raising the temperature of 1 pound of water from 0 degrees to 100 degrees requires 180 Btus.)
• second one is Water is an effective cooling agent because of its high latent heat of evaporation (i.e. changing water from a liquid to a vapour) which is 970.3 Btus per pound
• third amazing secret is  Water expands in its conversion from a liquid state to a # vapour state from 1,600 to 1,700 times the liquid volume. One gallon of water produces 223 cubic feet of steam.
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