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PSA -- Buy a Fire Extinguisher
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: menace on April 11, 2005, 04:42:11 pm ---wasn't this on one of those foxnews fearmongering stories?
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Shape D.:
The call the one closest to the tower your closest to.
p.s. if you have an old cell phone without service anymore you can still call 911 on it.
Tailgunner:
Dry chemical extinguishers should be thumped every six months to stir up the powder inside. To do so you invert the extinguisher and tap the bottom with a rubber mallet. If the extinguisher has a flex hose on it, remove it and blow through it to make sure nothing has nested inside and clogged the hose.
I learned the hard way to keep an extinguisher in my truck. Last year while transporting several games home I set a moving blanket on fire and burned all the laminate and T molding off of my Pac cocktail.
Zakk:
I'm actually a fan of keeping the proper extinguisher in each area. There are ones for electrical fires, ones for grease fires, etc etc. You do need to thump them every year, and only get the ones with good gauges on them. Follow the directions, and either discard or recharge according to the schedule that comes with each one. The gauges can always fail you know.
(and dammit Drew, that not OCD talking, that's common sense!!)
OSCAR:
Dartful Dodger - I'm glad you are okay and everyone was safe.
I also have fire extinguishers all around the house & garage. I'm deathly afraid of house fires, probably because when I was very young (maybe 8 or 9), our neighbor's house burned to the ground. All that was left was the concrete block crawlspace. I remember my parents taking boxes of clothes over to them so the kids would have something to wear to school.
Where I grew up in a very rural northern Michigan, there are just volunteer fire departments and you really can't count on them to save your house if it catches fire. If the FD was lucky, they could save their truck and most of the hose....
Even now, whenever we leave for even just a weekend, I turn off *everything*. I flip off the main breaker, turn off the hot water heater, the furnace, everything... Probably overkill, but it makes me feel a lot better when we are away.