Where is your fire extinguisher?

[lemur]

You know.. I have a theory that you can tell the people who have never been required to use a fire extinguisher by asking them that question.

I had a very unfortunate situation many years ago where I was required to use a fire extinguisher in order to avoid certain catastrophe.. thankfully I was prepared with an extinguisher that a family member left with me when they worked for a fire equipment company. I had never used one before.. Wow, I am glad it worked!

After that I have one handy.. Yep. Even in my bedroom..

If you need one.. you'll be happy to have one





p.s.

(don't be a hero.. you know when its too big for a fire extinguisher! get out!! and use the fire extinguisher to help you out!!)

[Eric]

One's beside my workbench, one in the bedroom (steps from the kitchen).

I do think it's time to replace them, however. Eeek.

[tamarakay]

mounted on pantry wall and one upstairs outside the bathroom. both probably need to be charged. We also have a really large one in the airstream.

[Bob]

In my pants.

[Sham]

I keep mine on my night table, right next to my bed---for obvious reasons!

[unjonharley]

One between the seats in the van, in the car trunk, Another in the pantry by the flash light, the shop and outside next to the back bedroom slider.. One in the guest cottage..

[TomServo]

Outside my bedroom door. One in the kitchen, one in the living room and one in the laundry room. We even have evacuation routes posted in several rooms. When we burned our man in the back yard, the hose was pulled out just in case.

[theCryptofishist]

One's beside my workbench, one in the bedroom (steps from the kitchen).

I do think it's time to replace them, however. Eeek.

You can always try shaking them back to powder form. Or have them recharged.

[wh..sh]

My fire extinguisher is called "scream and run"

[FIGJAM]

Anything I have can burn while I watch!

Then I can get a new one.

[TinkerMom]

One in every vehicle, four in the shop/garage. And just like flashlights, there is one by every door and under the sinks.
Of course, I live in a forest. And my dad is a retired firefighter and quite paranoid.

[AntiM]

One in the kitchen, one down by the fireplace. In the cars too, I think. Probably should replace them.

I was in the Navy, I've had extinguisher training, as well as a day of fire fighting training in full gear in boot camp. Every sailor gets rudimentary fire fighting training at a minimum, you can't call 911 at sea.

Does everyone have a CO2 detector? Working fire alarms?

[tummler]

Anti-M, thanks for the reminder to check all these devices! (wanders off to buy 9-volt batteries for the detectors.)

[unjonharley]

Anti-M, thanks for the reminder to check all these devices! (wanders off to buy 9-volt batteries for the detectors.)

we change and inspect at the two time changes each year..

25 years in disaster restoration gives me a small idea of what can happen to a home..

[junglesmacks]

One's beside my workbench, one in the bedroom (steps from the kitchen).

I do think it's time to replace them, however. Eeek.

You can always try shaking them back to powder form. Or have them recharged.

Pure genius advice there, Fishy..


I'll let you shake them as the house is burning down. I'll go spend $10 on a new, in-spec one.

[Canoe]

I keep a live baby seal in the back seat of the car for beating fires out with.

I was once alone using a friend's shop (they had five heavy equipment bays and a paint bay), on a weekend. Around 2:00 a.m. I had to torch some bolts off an old half-shaft flange to get it off the front diff. Only it was persistent, so was I, and it was heated so much a boot caught fire. The nearest fire extinguisher was empty. As was the next. And the next. Although the cylinders were all tagged and strategically located throughout the facility, other than one I found that put out two puffs of powder before it was empty, there wasn't a working fire extinguisher left in the place. Not in the shop, the office or their kitchen. Good job it was just a rubber CV boot.
I left the fourteen empty extinguishers in a pile by the front door for them to find...

[Canoe]

...I do think it's time to replace them, however. Eeek.

You can always try shaking them back to powder form. Or have them recharged.

I was taught to store the powder ones horizontally, with the mouth slightly up. Supposed to keep them functional the longest and starts to shake the powder up when you pick the cylinder up to use it.
Same for auto use, where that storage orientation is supposed to keep the powder shaken around some while you're driving.
True?

[theCryptofishist]

Beyond my knowledge. My husband was the firefighter (former) so I picked a few things up, but don't have access to it any more...

[maryanimal]

This house has no fire extinguisher or smoke alarms...and it's not up to me to get them either.

[Sham]

This house has no fire extinguisher or smoke alarms...and it's not up to me to get them either.

At very least, you should have a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide detector. I think we're talking $20 at Home Depot. Just buy it---it may save your life!

[mudpuppy000]

So how long can you store them for? Mine appears to be from 1998... It dosen't mention them expiring, just to check the pressure gauge which is still in the "green" zone.

[ygmir]

This house has no fire extinguisher or smoke alarms...and it's not up to me to get them either.

At very least, you should have a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide detector. I think we're talking $20 at Home Depot. Just buy it---it may save your life!

what Sham said, MA............very cheap and lifesaving. Do you have an escape route, from where you sleep/stay?

[theCryptofishist]

This house has no fire extinguisher or smoke alarms...and it's not up to me to get them either.

At very least, you should have a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide detector. I think we're talking $20 at Home Depot. Just buy it---it may save your life!

what Sham said, MA............very cheap and lifesaving. Do you have an escape route, from where you sleep/stay?

Um refusing to take your own life in your own hands, instead letting it be ignored might not be the best place to stand on princeple. Of course, I' m no example...

[illy dilly]

We've got one extinguisher located centrally in our apartment. Mind you centralling, is not more than 6-9 steps from any corner of our small apartment.

Though, with it being an apartment I'm not allowed to move the smoke/carbon monoxide detector since its hard wired in. But its about 5 feet from the front door in the main hallway, where the ceiling are lower than the living room, kitchen, or hallway where the furnace/water heater are.... in the egress path. Which is the least likely area for there to be a fire or carbon monoxide. It is not near the kitchen or furnace & water heater. It is sorta centrally located, but too close to the end of the path of egress aka main hallway. Not near the central part of the hallway, that leads to the living room, kitchen, furnace/WH, and bed rooms.
Its very silly. If there were smoke it would rise to the vaulted ceiling, not the low ceiling half way to the front door, in what is almost a dead air space. Very very silly!

[unjonharley]

Fall Back time change is Nov. 8
Time to change the batteries in your fire alarms and flash lights..

Come on you cheap bastard get with the program..

Those batteries may be good now.. But will they be ready when you next need them??


I have two 20 LED lamps that take three D cell batteries.. They also have a AC port.. I put new batteries in with a plastic tab.. The lights run off AC for the keyboard and room light.. If the power go's off I only need to pull the plastic tabs for battery power..

These are the same lamps that go to BM.. At BM they run off 12v converter.. Or can be converted to portable by pulling the plastic tabs..

The three D cells last for many hours..

[maryanimal]

This house has no fire extinguisher or smoke alarms...and it's not up to me to get them either.

At very least, you should have a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide detector. I think we're talking $20 at Home Depot. Just buy it---it may save your life!

what Sham said, MA............very cheap and lifesaving. Do you have an escape route, from where you sleep/stay?

The windows downstairs are non-egress, if I were to smash them out, and remove the window frame completely Yg, I could crawl out. The only other way out is up the stairs. Les was telling me that the wiring in this house is scary...every time I ask him about smoke alrams et al, he say's he's going to do something about it. But never does...ever.

[maryanimal]

This house has no fire extinguisher or smoke alarms...and it's not up to me to get them either.

At very least, you should have a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide detector. I think we're talking $20 at Home Depot. Just buy it---it may save your life!

what Sham said, MA............very cheap and lifesaving. Do you have an escape route, from where you sleep/stay?

Um refusing to take your own life in your own hands, instead letting it be ignored might not be the best place to stand on princeple. Of course, I' m no example...

I agree fishyfriend. I'm going out tomorrow and buy what I need.

[theCryptofishist]

Yeah!!!

[Oldguy]

ABC extinguisher on floorboard, passenger side of car. Gas and water wrench next to fuse box, outside of house. Hydrant in front yard. Cellphone in go-bag, always in reach.

[moonrise]

My house caught on fire 24+ times in 2007! Wildland forest fire, 200 foot tall wall of flames came at the place like a lion! (the windows melted!!) I was home studying quietly, then utter chaos within 10 minutes of the first sign of smoke, it started from a BBQ on a deck down the street (bbq was left unattended)

I bought many, big fire extinguishers shortly after that. Three mounted on the walls, they almost look like art. (almost) I might get one for the truck too

smoke alarms are $5.00 each....the house has about 8 of them, basically everywhere! (they've saved us twice, candles, wine, sex not always healthy or safe )

A few years ago, a Carbon Monoixde detector went off in an apartment of someone I know, the furnace had a cracked heat exchanger, they would never have known if not for that gizmo.

Last week a young couple died from another house fire, again, an unatteneded BBQ on the deck (one of the victims was a burner, the guy, RIP PTW, and GF)

A $5 smoke detecor would've saved their lives. Nuff said.