Kitchen oil fire video: Show your wives

[AteUp]

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=202218&vid=468906&b=0

[Willie]

Great public service announcement.

Good info...

Most will grab the pan and try to run outside with it..

[C.L.Button]

Good PSA advice Ateup.

When younger my stepmother tried to run out of the house with a cast iron pan on fire. I had to tackle her in the back yard to stop her. She was hysterical and had 3rd degree burns from it. It took her years of skin grafts to get over it.

[JeepComanche]

Good vid. I've treated way too many burns to people who tried to run to the door or sink with a burning pan of grease. Keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, laundry room also. Don't go talk to the neighbors when frying chicken, I responded to a fire last week where that happened.:(

[quackrstackr]

Wow. Good post.

I keep used vegetable oil onhand at all times for starting fires to burn brush trimmings around the house. It's amazing how flammable that stuff is but most people don't realize it.

[12 pointer]

at 7 tonight, my wife dropped an oniion in a pot to cook a "blooming onion". over flowed and caught fire. got it out fast. not bad but could have been. I was fixing to throw the stove out the basement door.!

[AteUp]

I was fixing to throw the stove out the basement door.!

We're you gonna hit it with a pool stick first?:eek:;)

[12 pointer]

We're you gonna hit it with a pool stick first?:eek:;)

If need be.!:)

I was up here checking out this new DSL thingy and heard a voice say "Fire". then heard it again and again and again. then I heard the little girl scream. then wife hollered, "Get daddy". By the time I hobbled to the bottom of the step, they had the top up and it smothered out. there was a nice looking fog bank at the botto of the steps, hoovering at the ceiling top in the basement. pretty cool. stunk though. could have been real bad. I need to get some extinguishers in the house.

[trust me]

I need to get some extinguishers in the house.

Go TODAY and buy at least one extinguisher for each level of the house. Cheap, expensive, doesn't matter, they all work. Keep one in the kitchen in the farthest corner away from the stove. The extinguisher won't be any good if it's next to the stove and you can't get to it.

Teach everybody, kids included how to use one. (Aim at what is on fire, not the flame above it.) An ABC extinguisher uses a powder and is effective at surprising distances. They are perfect for the home.

A- Combustibles such as wood, paper, etc.
B- Flammable liquids such as gasoline, cooking oil, etc.
C- Electrical fires

I have bought some used heavy steel commercial type extinguishers for my house, but the Kidd plastic ones at Wal-Mart are fine. Just get one soon.

[Willie]

Yes, buy a fire extinquisher for each level.

But don't buy too small... nothing like running out when the fire is 'almost' controlled.

[slickhead slayer]

doesn't baking powder also work on grease fires?

[C.L.Button]

doesn't baking powder also work on grease fires?

NO !

Baking SODA OR SALT does, however it would take a 2 gallon bucket full to put out the fire in the video. ;)

[ceg4uk]

Get a fire extinguisher for the deer camp and the truck, as well. Last year we almost burned down the cabin, but for a small $12 Rural King extinguisher. (I wasn't about to dump my beer on the fire:rolleyes:).

[deerhunter401]

i was always told as a kid to put flour on a grease fire. Is this wrong also?

[C.L.Button]

Get a fire extinguisher for the deer camp and the truck, as well. Last year we almost burned down the cabin, but for a small $12 Rural King extinguisher. (I wasn't about to dump my beer on the fire:rolleyes:).

I keep one in each vehicle,
one on each floor of the house,
2 in the shop,
2 in the kitchen,
& 2 @ deer camp. ;)

[C.L.Button]

i was always told as a kid to put flour on a grease fire. Is this wrong also?

Flour will easily burn. I would use the Baking Soda or Salt. OR keep an ABC rated extinguisher around. That is the safest thing. ;)

[EKY.MTN.HUNTER]

Get a fire extinguisher for the deer camp and the truck, as well. Last year we almost burned down the cabin, but for a small $12 Rural King extinguisher. (I wasn't about to dump my beer on the fire:rolleyes:).


I'll go out on a limb and say that beer that you didn't wanna waste played a roll in starting that cabin fire. :)

[ceg4uk]

I'll go out on a limb and say that beer that you didn't wanna waste played a roll in starting that cabin fire. :)
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