Wear your dam pants....
Posted on 04/10/2012 8:08:12 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper
Sometime last night, my slightly dotty, older neighbor put a pan on the stove and went to check her email. The obvious resulted, with a standard issue kitchen grease fire.
She panicked, couldn't contain it, and called me yelling: "Bring a fire extinguisher! Hurry!".
So I hustled over to her house with my trusty kitchen extinguisher with the cobwebs on it.
Of course, I did fail to put on pants.
The upshot of the night was:
A)Don't put a pan on the stove and walk off. Ever.
B)Have a fire extinguisher, and know where it is.
C) Don't wait to call 911. Those fire guys are GOOD!
D) Wear pants to a grease fire.
She couldn't sleep in the house because of the extinguisher powder in the air and all over everything. So out came my preparedness cot and sleeping bag, and I slept in my kitchen so she could have the bedroom. The breakers in her kitchen tripped with the burned wiring, so a work around had to be found to keep her refrigerator from going bad. I had that stuff. I'm glad I did. Not a world-wide disaster, but enough to prove the value of being prepared.
She'll be fine, a few thousand in damage, and a bad scare.
Lol!!
I thought the powder in an ABC was baking soda; pretty safe stuff.
“Never fry bacon in the nude.”
Care for some sausage with your bacon?
Just remember this safety jingle in the future;
FIRE ! FIRE !
PANTS TO A FIRE !
My experience in commerical kitchens is that hitting the big red button means all the food in the kitchen is trashed. And the firemen verified that last night.
They threw away everything over the stovetop, including closed spices, etc...
/johnn
Who freeps with pants on?
/johnny
Why I prepare: Snowmageddon 2010. Five days without electricity, which means without heat or light; no way to get a vehicle through three feet of snow and out of the community; store shelves stripped bare; no gasoline available even if I had been able to get out. So glad I had stockpiles of food, lighting materials, firewood, water, and medication, as well as skis, guns, ammo, horse, and fishing gear. You never know.
From 2008 until last year, I mostly ate stored food and local game, including squirrels. Kept me off the dole, and kept me alive.
Personal financial disasters are easier to bear if you can actually have a meal.
/johnny
Our hero. Way to go. So glad you were there for her. Your advice is important for everyone - old and young. Pay attention when you are working with fire and have an extinguisher... There is not always a JRandomFreeper close by to rescue you.
You sure made her life easier. She’ll always remember.
Lurkers Rule Of Fire Safetey: if it’s bigger than me it is time to flee.
She did freak out when the first two guys went into the house with fire axes. But she was alive to freak out, so it's all good.
/johnny
{E} Flour it’s not just for cooking
I would never use flour on a fire.
I cover any grease fire with the gigantic pot lid that is always out, remove the heat, and retreat.
/johnny
Add this to your list of things to NEVER DO with a grease fire.
NEVER PUT WATER ON THE FIRE! The water will boil, blow the now burning grease everywhere and the fire will flare up real bad.
A thing TO DO...Keep a large box of BAKING SODA where you can throw it on the fire. It will smother the fire and create CO2. Just make sure you don’t tell Al Gore!
/johnny
We always had the BRB (Big Red Button) if things got out of hand, but covering it with a metal lid, removing the heat and retreating generally worked. Hand held over the BRB, poised to run out the door like the wind.... waiting to see if the fire was actually going out.
/johnny
Used flour afew times it works no expolosion.
Explosions in mills is causede by to much flour dust.
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