[DVBC] What to do in the event of a kitchen fire

[ambrosine at comcast.net]

 Please Read and View Video 
 
 
This video is only 34 seconds long but if you're ever in this
situation it will save your kitchen, house and most of all you if you follow
the advice.
 
 Watch this video and learn what NOT to use to put out a grease
fire. 
 
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. Inside the confines of a kitchen, the fire ball hits the ceiling and
fills the entire room.
 
Also do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire. One cup creates
the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite.
 
    (See attached file: KitchenOilFire.wmv)
 
 
 
 
   







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