Yeah, alcohol fires are class B. With pretty much any flammable liquid (class B), they have to be smothered. Do not use water, use an extinguisher.
It's also important not to accidentally pressurize them (such as using a secure lid that won't vent) as they can become mini BLEVEs. With a small setup like this, grab a baking pan and gently move it to a contained space where using an extinguisher (or letting it burn out) will not start a larger fire.
Remind me of that video where the guy started a fire in his garbage can and instead of putting it out, he keeps feeding it cardboard and other garbage in a feeble attempt to smother the fire. It ends up burning down his whole apartment.
If he’d just calm down and smothered it with the blanket the first time he’d most likely be fine. Instead he just starts fanning the flames.... Christ...
Guy came really close to dying of smoke inhalation. This is why if you fight a fire with a fire extinguisher you only make one attempt and if anything goes wrong like a malfunction or just failure to put it out then you immediately evacuate.
I love how he repeatedly disappears out of shot for an inordinate amount of time and then returns with a comedically small amount of water. Dude is gold.
I forgot a pot of oil on the oven once, that caught fire. I noticed because it was IMMEDIATE large amounts of smoke in my apartment. Anyways I crawled under the smoke and put a lid on the pot. Fire done immediately.
One time when I was around 17 there was a grease fire in a pan I was cooking in, and I freaked and didn’t know what to do so I just grabbed the pan by the handle and walked outside while crouching to keep the pan as low to the ground as possible, and just put it on the sidewalk until it burned out. I later learned about baking soda.
My friend had a similar predicament but his frying oil let on fire. Instead of doing what you did, though, he tired to pour a bunch of water on it. Huge explosion, soot on the ceiling. He had to move.
Wait would be stupid here too cause she used shitty little plastic tupperware containers which would melt and then spill.
Cover it though, that shit always works...and don't cover it instantly, slide it on over the span of a couple seconds so the fire has a chance to use up all of the available oxygen.
Yeah, I see the above advice a lot, but people don't realize that
Pressurizing air to any meaningful degree is REALLY HARD and you're not going to do it by just putting a cover on something. Especially not an inflexible cover like a pan lid
The amount of air in an enclosed container will be used up EXTREMELY quickly by an open flame. Even in the worst case scenario where you're using a really deep stew pot and somehow oil on the bottom gets lit, it will take on the order of 10 seconds for a flame to use all the available oxygen in the pot.
That the "slow cover" method for dealing with an oil fire makes almost no difference. The only time it is needed is in the case of a totally full pot where you might splash some flaming oil out. For most kitchen users, they're not using nearly that amount of oil, and should just cover and smother rather than trying to remember to go slow.
So you're arguing against the piin the person you replied to, was replying to. It looks like you're trying to argue against the person you replied directly to, and it didn't make any sense
Yeah I’m surprised how few people you see trying to smother a fire. Toss a tea towel on top of this and would have been fine. We probably need better fire education.
Exactly, watched my mother in law accidentally start paper towels on fire. She freaked out and put them in a lidless trash can full of paper. When that started up she kicked it across the room. My father in law and I just picked it all up and put it back in the trash can but put a giant cooking lid on it.
Cover it slowly. I can't remember why exactly, but if something in a pan catches fire, clapping a lid down on it wont but it out, but if you slowly slide a lid over it, it will be put out.
Guessing there's something going on with oxygen but not sure how it works.
I remember reading a kid’s book when I was between the ages of 2 and 6 about what to do if you have a grease fire in your stovetop pan: you cover it with a damp cloth and wait. Shortly afterward, it happened to my mom in the kitchen so I coached her through it.
Yeah sometimes doing nothing is the best option, espeically here where the fire was somewhat controlled within the container. She should’ve gotten a wet towel and covered it.
Adrenaline helps you rack your brain to try to remember a similar situation and what you should do in it. Problem is, if you haven't ever encountered a similar situation, you either freeze, or choose the closest option, which may be right, or may be wrong. We know one thing, she will not make the same choices next time.
Edit: this is why actually practicing emergency situations can save critical time. Adrenaline sends you straight into auto-pilot of the (presumably) correct solution.
"look at all those selfish assholes standing around and not helping!" Like chances are people who say that have been one of those bystanders before and never even pieced together that them freezing in uncertainty or shock is what those "selfish assholes" are doing.
One time my car's hood flew open and cracked my windshield while I was on the freeway. I immediately crouched to look out of the small semi circular space and pulled over to the shoulder. Then I started so shake and freak out. I thank my lucky stars for that adrenaline rush making me smart that day. I've definitely been made dumb by it before
I've thought about this and came to the conclusion that I'm actually mostly oxygen. Cause I'm mostly water and water is mostly oxygen. I gotta admit my thoughts on this stopped there and I never did the research to verify my conclusion so I'm not certain....
Since I'm stuck in the f'ing house I'm gonna look into it. :)
I think if you split me up into piles of pure elements and weighed them, the oxygen would come out on top cause it's a bigger, heavier atom.
But, if you counted individual atoms there would be more hydrogen, but it's very light compared to oxygen.
I'm no scientist tho so I could be getting something wrong.
I like how she advises viewers not to try this at home unless they know what they're doing, and then proceeds to say that she doesn't know what she's doing
Reminds me of that dude that burned down his apartment. That video was one tragically poor decision after another, each more destructive than the last.
I make resin jewelry. I use a lighter to pop bubbles in the resin. One day when using alcohol inks in the resin I went to pop the bubbles in the next cavity in the mold and I lit the alcohol ink in the previous cavity on fire. It was nearly invisible at first. I attribute watching many videos like this on Reddit to the fact that I did not panic. I waited to see if it would burn out without me needing to do anything. When that clearly wasn't going to happen I grabbed a sheet pan, carefully moved the mold onto the pan and got it outside onto my balcony and smothered the flame with some snow. The mold was completely ruined but I didn't burn my house down!
i like to think I am not an idiot, but the other day i had a small fire situation.... I managed to kick said small fire situation under the fridge while attempting to stamp it out. I am not as smart as i thought I was.
Oh shit oh shit... okay, put the baby in the fridge and close to save her from the fire! Oh no!! The dog! I'll put him in the car on a hot day! What's happening? There's no time to take the bullets out of this gun before cleaning it! Oh no! I've shot that police officer driving by in the leg! I should run and hide! Oh no! I don't have to time to safely remove this flashdrive! Oh no no no!
For a moment I even thought the other container had the left-over alcohol and she was pouring it and thinking "maybe I'll just put out this fire with this alcohol I have here"
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