I saw a recent article on how a 2 year old died in a car crash on one of the freeways I take every day. Car accident+fire+baby seat=

some bystanders had fire extinguishers but it was too late

anyway I was thinking - i've never had to use a fire extinguisher.

I'm sure some of you have had to. Share the stories, even if its lame.

 

I was a theatre/stage tech in high school and as you probably guessed, everything backstage is painted black. Well I set off a pretty large fire extinguisher and blanketed the ENTIRE theatre's backstage with a thick layer of white powder.

I have two fire extinguishers here at home.

 

When we roll to a fire, it's always someones job to grab the water can. More often than not, a room and contents fire can be extinguished with that or a fire extinguisher.

 

yeah i was going to say, firefighters dont count in this thread.

yeah i kept one in the my first integra after i put the turbo in.

i got another one for the subaru.

i have one at the apt, plus theres the apartment supplied one in the hallway outside the front door

 

used one when the 944's starter caught fire. so pissed cost me 600 dollars to replace parts i had put in new a week before.

 

have 1 in the house and 1 in the garage. i used one in high school...not for a fire though.

 

Pull (pin)
Aim
Squeeze (handle)
Shoot

 

Once, and it was when I too was a lighting rigger / grip after HS.
The company had rented a rack of floods. Unknown to us, someone had re-lamped them way over the max wattage.
And when they were faded in -- for the first time -- during dress rehearsal, the fixtures started to smoke and the bases melted, setting fire to the gels. :eek3:

I don't know why the circuit breaker didn't trip, but I lunged for the extinguisher at the first lick of fire.
It blanketed the stage below in foam, and a couple actors took an impromptu shower.
But in the end, the show went on. h:

I did have one in the old GTI on account of the nitrous, but thankfully I never needed it.

IMO, you need at least two for a decent sized apartment.
One for kitchen disasters and one to buy some time if you're trapped in the bedroom and a fire breaks out.

 

I've never used one, and damn. I don't even think our apartment has one.

 

No, but I wish I had. I've had 3 vehicles catch on fire while driving. Now I keep one in the car.