Know about the Fire Triangle Understand how knowledge of the fire triangle can be used in fire prevention.

Fire Triangle

• Know about the Fire Triangle•Understand how knowledge of the

fire triangle can be used in fire prevention

Rank these ingredients as to how important they are in making apple pie?

Apples

Butter Pastry

Flour

Water

How long would this

candle burn for?

What will stop it

Arrange the following in terms of their importance for

making fire....

Fuel

Oxygen

Heat

Wax

Fuel

Oil

Wood

Coal

O2

Friction

Air

Sun

Diamond Ranking.....

?

Three important

ingredients are needed for fire, Can you guess what they

are?

?

?

Fuel

Heat

Oxygen

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Click on the question marks

to reveal the correct answers

OXYGEN

HEAT

FUEL

Your task is to move the labels to the correct parts of the triangle so we can

begin the Fire....

Fuel

Oxy

gen

Heat Wax

Fuel

Oil

Wood

Coal

O2

Friction

AirSun

Placemat Activity.....

Fuel

Oxy

gen

Heat

What happens if we remove one of the ingredients.... Click on an ingredient to remove it.

What do you think will happen?

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Using your knowledge of the Fire triangle, develop some methods of preventing the following fires.....

I bet you didn’t know that

petrol can ignite at -43!!

To Summarize..

For a fire to occur; Fuel,

Heat and Oxygen must all

be present

Using our knowledge of

the fire triangle we can work out sensible

methods of fire prevention!