Fire Fighting Equipment

Definition - What does Fire Fighting Equipment mean?

Fire fighting equipment is equipment designed to extinguish fires or protect the user from fire. It
may be used by trained fire fighters, untrained users at the scene of a fire, or built into a building's
infrastructure (such as a sprinkler system).

Fire fighting equipment includes not only fire hoses and fire extinguishers but also fire-resistant
protective clothing, fire-resistant gloves, respirators, and communication equipment.

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Safeopedia explains Fire Fighting Equipment
Fire fighting equipment is generally comprised of hundreds of different pieces of equipment and
technology.

A categorized list of such equipment might look like this:

Extinguishers – using water, dry chemical powder, foam, carbon dioxide, or other substances

Fire fighter’s gear – fire resistant outer suit, inner lining suit, inner and outer gloves, woolen
socks, fire resistant shoes, helmet (with or without headlight), communication system, and
breathing apparatus

Installed fire fighting system – main water supply network, hydrant, sprinkler (automatic or
manual), emergency fuel and electric cut off system, portable generators, and portable pumps

Communication equipment – walkie-talkie, radio, broadcasts, landline telephone, sound powered

telephone, cell or mobile phone, and voice pipe

Fire detection and alarm systems – smoke, frame, spark detectors, local, centralized automatic,
semi-automatic, and manual fire alarm systems

Other accessories – water and sand bucket, shovel, hammer, fire axe, cutters, hooks, fire blanket,
emergency lifesaving apparatus, and emergency lights

Subcategories
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.

A
Aerial firefighting (1 C, 26 P)
F
Fire service vehicles (1 C, 39 P)
Fireboats (2 C, 4 P)
Firefighter tools (15 P)
W
Wildland fire suppression equipment (1 C, 11 P)
Pages in category "Firefighting equipment"
The following 108 pages are in this category, out of 108 total. This list may not reflect recent
changes (learn more).

Glossary of firefighting equipment

A
Aero Union
Air pressurized water
Airtanker
Attic ladder
Automatic fire suppression
B
Boca Raton Fire Engine No. 1
Bunker gear
C
Check valve
Chemical oxygen generator
Country Fire Authority appliances
Country Fire Service appliances
Cutting extinguisher
D
Deluge gun
Dennis Sabre
Dennis SS series
E
E-One
Electric fire engine
Elvis (helicopter)
EN 3
Engine 51
Erickson Inc.
Escape chair
Escape chute
External water spray system
F
Fast Flow Extinguishers
Fire engine
Fire blanket
Fire bucket
Fire engine red
Fire Equipment Manufacturers' Association
Fire extinguisher
Fire hose
Fire hose vacuum
Fire protection fluid
Fire proximity suit
Fire pump
Fire sprinkler
Fire sprinkler system
Fire suppression system
Firefighter exposure tracking software
Firefighter's helmet
Firefighting apparatus
Fireman's pole
Fireman's switch
Foam path
Fog nozzle
G
Gaseous fire suppression
GAZ5903V Vetluga
Godiva Fire Pumps
Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy
H
Halotron I
Hard suction hose
Hartz-Booth
Hazardous materials apparatus
Hazmat suit
Heat detector
Helicopter rescue basket
Kaman HH-43 Huskie
Hook ladder
Hose coupling
Hose pack
Hose strap
Fire hydrant
I
Impulse Fire Extinguishing System
K
Knox Box
L
Life net
Light tower (equipment)
M
Merryweather & Sons
Minimax Limited
Modular Airborne FireFighting System
Motorola Minitor
N
NFPA 1901
Nobel Fire Systems
Nomex
P
PASS device
Penrith Museum of Fire
The Pig (tool)
Portable water tank
Siebe Gorman Proto
The Pyrene Company Limited
Q
Quint (fire apparatus)
R
Rampart Engineering
RCS Motor Club
Read and Campbell Limited
Rescue squad
REV Group
S
SEFA
Self-contained breathing apparatus
Self-contained self-rescue device
Shand Mason
Siren (alarm)
Skid unit
Standpipe (firefighting)
Station wear
Steam pumper
Steamexfire
Stirrup pump
Storz
T
Thermal imaging camera
Twin-agent fire extinguishing system
U
U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal
Uni-Engine
2002 United States airtanker crashes
V
Variable speed fire pump controller
W
Water tender
Waterous Engine Works Co. Ltd.
Welding blanket