Some fire extinguishers I've seen in France

[Alexis_T (Alexis C. R. Trinquet)]

EDIT: It seems the attachments were broken during the migration to Discourse, I’ll eventually see if I can find the files that I had posted and I’ll try to put them back.

I thought I’d share some pictures of fire extinguishers that I have seen a few weeks ago. Let me begin with some explanations:
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[*]In France, water-filled fire extinguishers are often labeled as "AB-class" ("Eau Pulvérisée avec Additif" litt. Pulverized water with additive) as they contain an additive for B-class fires. Though A-only extinguishers (known as "Eau Pure" or pure water) do exist but for very specific applications.

there's also BC-class and ABC-class powder extinguishers but more on that later..

[*]There are two types of extinguisher mechanisms recognized in France: Pression Permanente (PP = "Permanant Pressure" and Pression Auxiliaire (PA = Auxiliary Pressure)

“Permanant Pressure” extinguishers are constantly under pressure and often have a pressure gauge. Once you push the handle, they activate immediately.

“Auxiliary Pressure” extinguishers need to be pressurized first by pushing the handle down (or striking a “button” down on some models), upon the handle being pushed down, a cartridge inside the extinguisher will pressurize the unit, after doing that you may use the second “trigger” on the extinguisher’s hose.

Auxiliary pressure extinguishers don’t have a gauge, have a second “trigger” on the hose and often can be dismantled for filling and maintenance.

[*] Sometimes you can find extinguishers from a known manufacturer relabeled by the company who installed them (ROT and Andrieu does that commonly)

[*] AB-class extinguishers can be either "Prémélange" (where the additive is mixed into the water) or have a canister with the additive agent inside that will rupture upon the extinguisher being pressurized. One manufacturer (Andrieu) uses a special Co2 pressurization cartridge that contains CO2 and the additive agent inside, this is known as a "Sparklet Zeon™️"

[*] Extinguishers in France comes in two major sizes: 6 lites or 9 litres for water (known as E6 and E9), 6kg and 9kg for ABC/BC powder (known as P6 and P9). Uncommon sizes include P50 (50 kilos powder), P4 (4kg powder) and P2 (2kg). For water extinguishers I've never seen anything but E6 and E9.

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Ahem, so let’s begin!

First we got an Eurofeu Eurotech, this one is actually in my collection (yes I started collecting fire extinguishers), it’s a E6 dated from 2015. Funnily enough, I found this extinguisher discarded in a dumpster:

Then there is this Sicli Eclipse P2 that I got from my uncle, this extinguisher is probably the oldest I have in my collection. Note the “France Télécom” logo on it, it’s a special serigraphy:

Last but not least, a small E6 Parflam that I have seen somewhere in Chambly, I do not know if it’s a rebadged unit or if Parflam made it themselves: