What kind of rating does the NFPA give FireFreeze products?
I will tell you that dry-powder ABC fire extinguishers are not may favorites. They all spread their powder far and wide, use one in a house and you will find it on every horizontal surface in every room, doors closed or not, and the powder isn't easy to clean up after it sets for a time.
Worse, if the powder is mono-ammonium phosphate based it is corrosive to many metals as soon as moisture hits it.
That may be true, but imho an out of control fire has a far more corrosive effect than the dry powder compound. Better to face clean up on the powder than rebuild on the house...
Still, its good to not need the fire extinguisher in the first place in fire suppression, such as know how and when to smother flames (stove fire) rather than attack with an extinguisher. A friend of a friend was kind of embarrassed over the thanksgiving holiday when he fired his extinguisher at a stove fire and spread hot oil all over his kitchen from the blast, rather than covering and smothering the fire. Friend ^friend was once a volunteer with a local rural FD, and said he just didn't think before taking aim. At least he was up front about his goof, he sent out an email to his friends warning them not to make the same mistake - there are videos up on youtube and places like that describing the best way to deal with hot oil on a stovetop etc.
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