Fire Safety - Please watch; could save a life!

This is a dramatic video (30-second, very short) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire ... Oil in a frying pan.      Please read the following introduction and then watch the show ... It's a real eye-opener!! You'll want to send this one on to your family and friends.

This video saved my home about 6 months ago.  I started a grease fire that (while I went to check my email) flamed all the way to the ceiling) My first instinct was to spray it with my sink sprayer, but I had just seen this video. Bo finally got the fire under control by trying to smother it, he picked the pan of flaming grease up and ran out the front door with it. I knew no one would ever believe this was an accident as the house had been on the market to sell for several months!   

Hat tip:  Lisa S.                  Download KitchenOilFire.wmv

At the Charleston Navy base at the Fire Fighting Training school they would demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field.

An instructor would don a fire suit and using an 8 oz Cup at the end of a 10 foot pole toss 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.