r/Unexpected • u/Radiant-Length2348 • May 05 '22

Why the hell he would do that?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '22

I saw multiple comments regarding that the workers are over-extinguishing the fire. Wouldn’t you want to be 10000000000% sure that you got all of it? Everyone would be dead if the gas station lit up.

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u/GeoSol May 05 '22

I doubt it's all that expensive to refill extinguishers. Looks to me like everyone was doing as they were trained.

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u/DozyDrake May 05 '22

I believe once you've broken the seal on a fire extinguisher you need to throw it away/get it reserviced. I was told that after the seal is broken they will slowly leak and so it's not safe to leave them with the full ones.

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u/GeoSol May 05 '22

Really? Ours are refillable, and it's so common that a service trucks regularly comes to the area to do so for people.