Kitchen fire
J Perrigin
attachment I never realized that a wet dishcloth can be a
one size fits all lid to cover a fire in a pan! This is a dramatic video
(30-second, very short) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire ...
oil in a frying pan.
Read the following
introduction, then watch the
show ... It's a real eye-opener!!
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At the Fire-Fighting Training school
they would
demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field. An
instructor
would don a fire suit and using an 8 oz cup at the end of a 10
foot pole
toss water onto the grease fire. The results got the attention of
the
students.
The water, being heavier than oil, sinks to the bottom where
it instantly
becomes superheated. The explosive force of the steam
blows the burning oil
up and out. On the open field, it became a thirty foot
high fireball that
resembled a nuclear blast. Inside the confines of a
kitchen, the fire ball
hits the ceiling and fills the entire room. Also, do
not throw sugar or
flour on a grease fire. One cup of either creates the
explosive force of two
sticks of dynamite. This is a powerful
message----watch the video and don't
forget what you see. Tell your whole
family about this video. Or better
yet, send this to them.
Robert King
<AKitchenOilFire1.wmv>
J Perrigin
Robert King
Jon Stine
http://www.columbian.com/article/20090128/NEWS02/701289941
Jon