Originally Posted By: martinfocazio


It might be a good time to clean your chimney, check your smoke detectors, install a few more fire extinguishers, take a first responder course.

Oh, and to the point of fire extinguishers. If you've never practiced on live fire with one, make a way to do it. Ideally you can do it in your yard, but if not, try to find a place to learn with LIVE FIRE not some dumb simulation. You can buy small extinguishers for $12 - it's well worth it. Make a fire with something oily and stubborn - soak some rags in used motor oil and hang some old curtains over it to simulate a kitchen grease fire. You want to experience the heat and noise and feel and smell of the process before you have to do it for real.


Excellent advice Martin.

My daughter looks forward to when one of the fire extinguishers starts to "go flat". That's when we sacrifice it in the driveway to let her have a little "live fire" practice.

I set a small (tiny) piece of plywood to burn in the driveway to let her practice Pull-Aim-Squeeze-Sweep.

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