Description
Fire / Welding Blanket are fire retardant or fire resistant tarpaulins that are also wellknown as “fire proof blankets”. These blankets do not burn, they melt.
A Fire Blanket is a safety device designed to extinguish incipient (starting) fires. It consists of a sheet of fire retardant material which is placed over a fire in order to smother it. In order for a fire to burn, all three elements of the fire triangle must be present: heat, fuel and oxygen.The fire blanket must be sealed closely to a solid surface around the fire. Whether the blanket is placed on top, or surrounding it, the job of the blanket is to cut off the oxygen supply to the fire, thereby putting it out.