Re: Auto Fire Extinguishers

[eyvind.spangen@c2i.net (Eyvind Spangen)]

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:56:20 -0400, you wrote:

>One time on an interstate trip when I was about 15, we were the first to 
>pull up on a woman what appeared to be a smoking hood.  As we got closer, 
>we could see flames licking out from under the hood.  My grandfather picked 
>up a fair size car fire extinguisher, and emptied it under the hood, The 
>fire laughed at the puny effort.  By this time it seemed 100 truckers 
>appeared out of nowhere, and they all ran up with full size fire 
>extinguishers (size of scuba tank) and it took about 20 of those to put out 
>what seemed to be a mild fire.  All this took less than 2 minutes I would 
>guess, as there was a fair amount of traffic on the highway.
>
>The moral here, is don't lull yourself with a false sense of security with 
>a small car extinguisher, this will only work in the first few seconds of 
>the fire, if it is flaming for long enough for you to pull over, then it is 
>likely is already to far advanced for one of the smaller units to work 
>(assuming engine fire.)

Well, I carry an 6 kg (13 lbs) extinguisher in the trunk of my car..
You never know what can happen.. :-)

ES