Kitchen fires.... by kerminator

Everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.   It is also Fire Prevention Month. Please watch this video. I know that everyone says “I know what to do and this will never happen to me”, but it does happen to people, every day in every city and what you think you know to do will be forgotten. If this will save 1 person or 1 house, it’s well worth the time taken.

Thanks. a Concerned friend

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU WATCH FIRE SAFETY VIDEO

This is a dramatic video (30-second) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire ...    Oil in a frying pan.

Please read the following introduction and then watch the show ... It's a real
eye-opener!! Perhaps you'll want to send this one on to your family and friends.

Charleston Navy base, the Fire Fighting Training school 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 the oil, sink s 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 creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite.

KitchenOilFire.wmv (1959k bytes)