Originally Posted By: Blast
Originally Posted By: Hanscom
I have been told that your kitchen fire extinguisher should be stored nearby but never IN your kitchen where a fire could block access to it.

I would appreciate any comment by one of you pros out there.


More than one fire extinguisher will solve that problem. You want to respond to a fire FAST. Having to run out of the kitchen to get the fire extinguisher seems like a bad plan.

-Blast


Speaking as a trained Fire Marshal (and by coincidence, I just had a conversation on this score with my S.O's son):

You never, ever attempt to tackle a fire in a house.

Get out of the room (taking children, pet's etc with you).

Close the door on it.

Get every one out of the house.

Call 911 from Outside the house.

Fire generate's Smoke.

SMOKE KILLS!

And allway's, allway's have an evacuation plan that everyone in the house know's.

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