How the Chemical Agents Act as a Fire Suppression System There are 4 ways how the chemical agents function on a fire suppression system and those are Reduction or Isolation fuel, Isolation or Reduction of Oxygen, inhibition of the components chain reaction and heat reduction. Once these methods are all combined, this will be called Fire Tertrahedron. If you are wondering how the extinguishing agents will be applied, well you have to know that there are 2 methods to do it. The first method is known as the “local application” wherein an extinguishing agent will be applied directly to the fire with 2 to 3 dimensional area that covers the object while it is on fire. The next one is known as total flooding.
