What to do in the event of a grease fire…
I’m sure everybody knows this, but its definitely worth repeating!
My step-mother forwarded me this video. It looks to be a commercial to educate the people the dangers of putting water on a grease fire and what to do / not to do in the event of a grease fire. The email also gives a nice story of an example giving at the Charleston Navy base:
At Charleston Navy base at the Fire Fighting Training school they 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, 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 resembles a nuclear blast.
This is definitely common knowledge, or at least I hope it is! However, I do think it’s worth repeating: Do not use water on a grease fire!
The email also gave another interesting note, which I personally didn’t know:
Also do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire. One cup creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite.
And the commercial, of course:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBDqwOQiZn4[/youtube]
