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

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 The video can be viewed at http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=708224

Ira Wallace

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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