Hubei Xiaogan: fire hardcore “experimental counterfeiting” teaching methods to identify counterfeit and shoddy fire products

Wuhan, China Youth Net, March 15 - Firefighting products are a "line of protection" to protect life and property, and good or bad quality is directly related to the safety of people's lives and property. Counterfeit and shoddy fire products will produce what harm? On the eve of 3-15 International Consumer Rights and Interests Day, Hubei Xiaogan Fire and Rescue Detachment carried out "3-15" real and fake fire-fighting products comparison test, by selecting dry powder fire extinguishers, water belts, water guns, fireproof paints and other fire-fighting products commonly found in our lives to conduct on-site experiments and compare the effects of fire-fighting and fire prevention, and to tell the public about the fake and shoddy fire-fighting products in a scientific and visual way.

Seeing is believing. Comparison of experiments began, firefighters were using two fire extinguishers to extinguish the oil pool fire, by comparing the effect of fire extinguishing, fake and shoddy fire extinguishers were revealed, it can not put out the fire. "Qualified fire extinguishers filled with agents for sodium bicarbonate or ammonium phosphate dry powder fire extinguishing agent, can effectively extinguish the incipient fire. According to our observation and judgment, the fake fire extinguisher in the experiment should be filled with cheap and poor-quality stone powder, which is a kind of auxiliary material of fire extinguishing agent, and can't play the role and effect of extinguishing fire." Xiaogan City Fire and Rescue Detachment supervisor Zhou Wei explained.

In the authenticity of fire hose experimental testing, firefighters take a quality qualified fire hose and a poor quality fire hose pressure test comparison experiment. When the water pressure reaches 0.6 MPa, the poor quality water belt interface has begun to seep a lot of water. When the water pressure reaches 0.8 MPa, the poor quality water belt can not withstand the pressure instant burst, the water gushed out.

In the fire-resistant coating experiment, firefighters were two coatings applied to the board, using high-temperature flamethrower on the surface of the coating to burn, to compare the degree of expansion of each and the fire-resistant situation. In the high-temperature flamethrower under sustained combustion, coated with inferior coatings on the board has carbonized, while coated with qualified fireproofing coatings on the board intact. "Qualified fireproof coating coating will not crack, fall off, when burned by the blowtorch and other strong fire, it will be a large number of foam expansion, surface aggregation raised, within a few minutes will not appear to burn the phenomenon, while the fake and shoddy fireproof coating is basically not foam, there will be a large number of scattered slagging situation, the wooden substrate will also quickly burn the phenomenon of breakage." Firefighters operating experiments while introducing.

In addition, the firefighters also explained the identification methods of all kinds of commonly used fire protection products, and guided consumers to correctly choose qualified fire protection products by means of ID card marking, 3C marking and basic appearance checking to create a strong atmosphere for all people to participate in the fight against counterfeit fire protection training and fake and shoddy fire protection products.

The safety of fire fighting products is of vital importance. Once unqualified fire fighting products are put into use, they will not only lead to the inability of fire fighting facilities and equipments to be used normally, but also directly affect the alarm, fighting and evacuation of fire, which will easily cause the spread and expansion of fire. Here the fire department to remind everyone: do not buy fire equipment only cheap and ignore the safety, be sure to buy qualified fire products through regular channels.