My neighbor's lawn caught fire today, and almost caught his house and truck on fire. I got there just in time with one of our two brand new fire extinguishers. I just followed the fire line across the perimeter in a sweeping motion and arrested the entire line.
The problem came when, after only about ten seconds, the fire extinguisher was spent. This was a brand new properly pressurized large extinguisher, not one of those little convenience extinguishers, so I thought it would last longer. As soon as the ten seconds was up, the parts of the fire that had jumped the fire permimeter started up a couple of new fires -- one of them near the truck's gas tank -- but I had nothing left, and my neighbor's garden hose was hopelessly tangled and wouldn't reach. We had to tackle the remaining small fires (rapidly getting larger) by slapping them with coats, but if they were any larger they would have gotten away from us. If I had bothered to read the label (which I did after the fact), it clearly states that there is only 13 to 15 seconds of discharge time in the extinguisher. So the lesson for all of us is this: When you're buying fire extinguishers for your home or office (good A-B-C ones), get the *biggest damned fire extinguisher you can find, and get more than one!* The big Kidde commercial model runs about fifty bucks a piece at Lowes, but I learned today that you need more fire extinguisher than you think. From now on we're keeping at least three -- one of which is the big one, and when we replace the smaller ones as they depressurize over time, we're replacing them with the big ones. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com Download Plum and other cool development tools, and get advanced intensive Master-level training: * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers * ColdFusion MX Master Class * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:150381 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
