Time for a short quiz. Are you ready? Here goes...
If you are frying something and the bottom of the pan catches fire, do you
a) Throw water on it
b) Throw salt on it
c) Throw flour on it
d) Blow on it
e) Run screaming from the house.
If you chose wrong, welcome to the club. If you chose correctly, "WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU THIS MORNING?"
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
Quiz Time
Time for a short quiz. Are you ready? Here goes...
If you are frying something and the bottom of the pan catches fire, do you
a) Throw water on it
b) Throw salt on it
c) Throw flour on it
d) Blow on it
e) Run screaming from the house.
If you chose wrong, welcome to the club. If you chose correctly, "WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU THIS MORNING?"
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I choose F: Scream like a frightened female toddler, wet and soil self, and then pass out on floor.
Did I get it right?
Yikes!
Well, since you are blogging I assume it wasn't too tragic!?
Mark; I personally choose all of the above.
Mackey; I did manage to put out the fire with minimal damage.
Throw Flour!
Water spreads the grease...
Salt doesn't smother..
Screaming only hurts your throat.. :)
I did throw flour on it, it made the flames go higher. The water actual worked.
Really!
Wild!
Where is your fire extinguisher???
*spanks* for not having one!
Very first choice is my fire extinguisher which is within arms reach of my stove.
Actually used it once when an oven mitt was too close to the stove and caught on fire.
If I didn't have one, I'd use water.
Choice b,c,d are quite doubtful. Now e, run from the house is what my wife did when my son put something in the microwave and started a fire. Guess she wasn't supervising very well.
Her complaint, he burned her pizza (bad priorities).
Apparently you did OK, but do take precautions. This should be a wakeup call to your readers.
Also, all fire extinguishers are not equal, look at the letters, some are for electric, or paper, or grease. A hardware store will have a variety. Some will give advice about being good for kitchen, basement, garage.
Never put water on an electrical fire. Also for a gas leak, do not use anything electric in your home, including a cordless phone that has a base station in the house. Any spark could ignite a serious explosion. Leave the house and open doors as you leave to help slow down any accumulation.
Carbon Monoxide is another thing to have a detector for. I have seen combination detectors that detect CO2 and natural gas. For $10 more to detect natural gas is money well spent.
So everybody, get safe…
Now here’s a tough one. I’m in a big data center and I’m on lead that day. I’m responsible for everything to keep this multi-million dollar data center running.
Luckily we have our fire process worked out, no water, no regular extinguisher. Only electric fire approved extinguishers near equipment. Smoke and heat detectors every 10 feet in ceiling and under floor. Automatic Halon fire suppression is installed. When two adjacent detectors go off the Halon countdown begins. In 30 seconds, the doors are locked there are loud booms as the Halon fires and removes all oxygen in the room. All personnel in the room are to hit the floor on a solid tile (Halon comes through holes in the some of the tiles under pressure) and hold your breath. In about 30 seconds doors will unlock and you will need to leave, possibly being sick if too much is inhaled.
Some maintenance guy is replacing light bulbs on one of our seven 30 ton air conditioners. The bulbs are in little plastic sleeves and one got sucked in. I’m walking by and someone shouts they smell smoke, I look and sure enough there is a cloud of smoke near the air conditioner, first alarm goes off, I ask the dufus, hey what’s going on, what’s burning. The second alarm goes off, now, we’re getting a count down. Finally he says its just plastic, he can put it out.
Now I have to run about a 100 feet to a Halon cutoff switch. When Halon fires it saves the equipment, but makes a big mess, and is a restricted ozone material that costs over 50K to replace.
So a dufus with a light bulb almost shut down our datacenter and cost us over 50K. He kept his job. I didn’t even get any notice for quick action. Later I was asked to leave because my time in divorce court caused me to take off too much time from work.
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