Portable Fire Extinguisher

Portable Fire Extinguisher

A portable fire extinguisher is an appliance and type of fire extinguisher that when directed at a small fire is used to control or extinguish the fire. A portable fire extinguisher by its nature is designed to be carried by a person from its storage location to a fire and operated by hand. A portable fire extinguisher must be manually operated by a person to control or extinguish the fire. The design capacity of a portable fire extinguisher has a gross mass of not greater than 23 kg1.

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