We are quickly approaching the days when we will be doing a lot of cooking at home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as decorating our homes with Christmas trees and other decorations.
Here are a couple of very powerful fire safety videos that could very well save someone's life.
Please, pass this along to your families and friends...
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Kitchen Oil Fire
This is a dramatic video (30-second, very short) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire - Oil in a frying pan.
At a Charleston Navy base, the Fire Fighting Training school demonstrates this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field. An instructor dons a fire suit and using an 8 oz Cup at the end of a 10-foot pole, tosses 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 resembled 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. This may save your life.
http://www.ct.gov/dcf/lib/dcf/wmv/wmv/kitchenoilfire.wmv
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Christmas Tree Fire Hazards
Water That Tree!
What's a holiday party or even the traditional Christmas morning scene itself without a beautifully decorated tree?
If your household, as those of more than 33 million other American homes, includes a natural tree in its festivities, take to heart the sales person's suggestion -- "Keep the tree watered." That's good advice and not just to create a fragrant indoor winter wonderland atmosphere. Christmas trees account for 200 fires annually, resulting in 6 deaths, 25 injuries and more than $6 million in property damage.
Typically shorts in electrical lights or open flames from candles, lighters or matches start tree fires. Well-watered trees are not a problem. Dry and neglected trees can be.
NOTE HOW QUICKLY THE WHOLE ROOM IS ENGULFED IN FLAMES...
http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/downloads/media/tree_fire.mpeg
Be SAFE this holiday season...
Here are a couple of very powerful fire safety videos that could very well save someone's life.
Please, pass this along to your families and friends...
_____________________
Kitchen Oil Fire
This is a dramatic video (30-second, very short) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire - Oil in a frying pan.
At a Charleston Navy base, the Fire Fighting Training school demonstrates this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field. An instructor dons a fire suit and using an 8 oz Cup at the end of a 10-foot pole, tosses 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 resembled 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. This may save your life.
http://www.ct.gov/dcf/lib/dcf/wmv/wmv/kitchenoilfire.wmv
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Christmas Tree Fire Hazards
Water That Tree!
What's a holiday party or even the traditional Christmas morning scene itself without a beautifully decorated tree?
If your household, as those of more than 33 million other American homes, includes a natural tree in its festivities, take to heart the sales person's suggestion -- "Keep the tree watered." That's good advice and not just to create a fragrant indoor winter wonderland atmosphere. Christmas trees account for 200 fires annually, resulting in 6 deaths, 25 injuries and more than $6 million in property damage.
Typically shorts in electrical lights or open flames from candles, lighters or matches start tree fires. Well-watered trees are not a problem. Dry and neglected trees can be.
NOTE HOW QUICKLY THE WHOLE ROOM IS ENGULFED IN FLAMES...
http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/downloads/media/tree_fire.mpeg
Be SAFE this holiday season...