Question

Question 7
If a person’s clothes catch fire, the best way to extinguish the fire is to:

(a) Throw water on the clothes.
(b) Use fire extinguisher.
(c) Cover the person with a woollen blanket
(d) Cover the person with a polythene sheet.

Answer 1

The answer is (c).
Cover the person with a woolen blanket so that the supply of air is cut off towards the burning clothes and hence burning of the cloth stops.