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Do you have a fire extinguisher on hand? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 2 years ago by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is going to be more of a life pro tip, but trying to reach the largest audience here.

Just had a frantic neighbour knocking at my door saying there is a fire in her oven.

I was over there in under 60 seconds with the fire extinguisher. There was a pot of oil on fire wedged between the element and the rack. No way to quickly and safely remove it, so I blasted it.

If I had tried to remove the pan, it's likely it would have ended up spilling burning oil everywhere and making the situation much worse. Now they just have a house full of dust to clean.

Will replace our extinguisher today and am considering buying a few more to gift this Christmas.

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[-] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 5 points 2 years ago

Yup. Got one right next to the laboratory. One day, you could always forget to turn off a soldering iron!

Also -- if you're doing modern electronics development (or RC cars, or just have a lot of old phones), boy will you accumulate bad lithium cells. Fire-safe bags for them are really cheap!

[-] variants_of_concern@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I really need to get rid of my drone lipos but they cost me money so hopefully they don't pop haha

[-] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 1 points 2 years ago

Haha, I have a similar problem. I had (very carefully) salvaged the battery from a crashed drone. They were higher energy density than anything I could buy in my country at the time. I rebuilt battery packs from them.

Now years later they're not so good and they have a semi-permanent home in a fireproof enclosure :( I should have thought about disposal first. Oh well, lesson learned.

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Store them burried in a bucket of dry sand. That's literally how they get stored for disposal because that's the best place for them to be if they do pop.

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