Fire Extinguishers

Annual maintenance and certification

Keeping up with current laws and regulations

  1. Six year teardown.
  2. Hydro testing,
  3. Fire extinguisher placement.
  4. Vehicle fire extinguisher codes.
  5. What is entailed in annual maintenance,
  6. K model fire extinguisher requirement

What kind of fire extinguisher do I need

Portable extinguishers are also rated for the size of fire they can handle. This rating is expressed as a number from 1 to 40 for Class A fires and from 1 to 640 for Class B fires. This rating will appear on the label-- 2A:10B:C, for example. The larger the numbers, the larger the fire of a specific class on which the extinguisher can be used (but higher-rated models are often heavier - make sure you can hold and operate an extinguisher before you buy it). No number accompanies an extinguisher's Class C rating. The C on the label indicates only that the extinguisher is safe to use on electrical fires.

Extinguishers for Class D fires must match the type of metal that is burning. These extinguishers do not use numerical ratings. Extinguishers for Class D fires are labeled with a list detailing the metals that match the unit's extinguishing agent.Taken with a few modifications from the types of extinguishers in the training section of the old site

For your vehicle and transportation services

Interstate Fire Protection offers low cost mobile fire extinguisher and vehicle system service for your personal car, fleet or transportation department. Interstate can service and recharge your extinguishers in one quick and easy stop. We eliminate vehicle down time with 24/7 service and we specialize in getting your fleet up to DOT standards and can service or replace the extinguisher in your personal vehicle as well

How it works

If you ask any firefighter what it takes to create a fire, you will learn that you have to have three things:

  1. A fuel - some sort of combustible solid, liquid or gas
  2. Oxygen to react with the fuel
  3. Heat - there must be enough heat to get the fuel above its flash point. There is paper on your desk right now that is surrounded by oxygen. It does not burn unless you get the paper hot enough.

If you want to put out a fire, you need to remove one of the three elements. When you watch firefighters battling a forest fire, they generally try to remove fuel or heat. Either they pour water on the fire to reduce the temperature, or they try to bulldoze strips of bare earth to eliminate the fuel.

A carbon dioxide fire extinguisher works by eliminating oxygen and replacing it with carbon dioxide. You could do the same thing with just about any non-oxidizing gas (nitrogen, for example), but carbon dioxide is inexpensive and easy to store.
Another way to cut off oxygen is to throw a blanket over the fire. Covering the fire with dirt or sand does the same thing. You might have heard that you can put out a kitchen fire by throwing baking soda or salt on the fire. Throwing sand would do the same thing, but most people have more salt in their kitchens than they have sand.

Dry chemical fire extinguishers are by far the most common fire extinguishers in the home. They can handle all three types of fires you would find in a kitchen or workshop: combustible solids like wood or paper, combustible liquids like gasoline or grease, and electrical fires. The idea behind a dry chemical fire extinguisher is to blanket the fuel with an inert solid (similar to dirt or sand). A dry chemical extinguisher sprays a very fine power of sodium bicarbonate (normal baking soda), potassium bicarbonate (nearly identical to baking soda), or monoammonium phosphate. These solids coat the fuel and smother the fire.

Mobile and in shop service

Let Interstate Fire Protection come to you with our 24/7 mobile fire extinguisher service call us today to set an appointment with one of our clean professional and on time technicians

Prefer to bring it in? We are located at 36140 Jana Ln. in Wildomar, CA and can service almost any type of extinguisher right in our shop. We will tell you exactly what you need without charging you an arm and a leg.