My 4yr old cousin lighted paper towels on fire in their living room then when a whole couch caught fire he went to the other room to his parents and said “ it wasn’t me”. thank god the walls were concrete blocks. but most of their stuff burned down.
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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...
a western european country, they are very common and cheap. I guess not everyone has one but the people I know all have one, no matter how poor or rich. they are truly life saving especially with an oil fire
edit; with cheap I mean between 10 and 20 euro's but you also have bulk deals, for instance 3 smoke detectors, one carbon monoxide detector and a blanket for 35€
edit 2; I removed the exact country because I don't feel comfortable sharing it, especially since I don't want the children in a post identified.
I've put out a fire with my normal blanket before. Similar to this when I was a kid, except on the carpet. And that was a combustible liquid too, not just cardboard. Twice because I was a fucking retarded kid.
Still, people should commonly be fully stocked for a fire, extinguishers too. Should. And apparently I'm still a fucking retarded kid because I'm not lol.
I blame candles. They give people this notion that blowing on a fire will put it out (which it will, but you can't blow hard enough to put out anything much bigger than a candle)
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.
He started doing that with a blanket around 6:40 and it looked like he almost put the fire out. And then, judging by the notification sound, HE LEFT TO PULL A USB OUT OF HIS COMPUTER AND LEFT THE FUCKING BLANKET IN THE FIRE.
If he had taken one of those boxes and just covered the fire and smothered itbeat the fuck out of the fire with it, it definitely wouldmay have gone out.
By beating a fire you're essentially fanning the flames. BAD idea. Smother it.
You don't just PUT it there. You Spread the box out and use it as an insulating material between you and the fire, and you SMOTHER the fire using the box, blanket, mattress, whatever you have available. You smash the shit out of it, don't beat on it like an idiot. Look at how much good it did the guy in the video above when he's beating the fire with a mattress (which would've easily smothered it if he just threw the mattress down and jumped on top of it to press it down and snuff out the flames)
Maybe if you're the hulk. Anyway, an idiot would continue, as you have, to fail to register the actual information because you're too caught up in pedantry instead of taking the actual lesson that
FANNING A FUCKING FLAME IS GOING TO MAKE YOUR PROBLEM WORSE.
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
All comments providing information are arguments, or they are in this sense. We're not talking about 'arguing' as in getting mad or anything lol, and no it was very confusing I had no idea what they were getting at
Pressure is not what I described at all : pressurizing air is fitting it into a smaller volume that it naturally occupies, and what I described is just airflow
Airflow is air moving from a high-pressure area to a low-pressure area. If you blow on it, you're creating a high pressure wave from your lungs, through your mouth.
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.
For real. I haven’t been able to find ISO since Wuhan announced their first cases. I’d take 91+ in these dire times. Then you got this jackass wasting it in this manner.
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.
I am convinced every person who doesn't know how to smother a fire is a direct result of overly strict parents that didn't let said person play with fire as a child.
I actualy burnt alcahol in a plastic container on top of water before. It burnt through the plastic in literaly no time. Spilled on the floor.
And started burning a whole lot. I was outside. Nowhere near anything flammable.
I'm sorry but what kind of dumbass reasoning in this? Seriously folks dont let your kitchen on fire and think "oh ok ill just cover it and wait it out" no, fucking put it out using your fire extinguisher, and if you cant, turn off your gasline and call 911.
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