Kitchen Grease Fire

Important ... REMEMBER the wet towel to kill a grease fire!!


Kitchen Fire Safety:
This is a video (30-seconds) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire ... oil in a frying pan. Please read the  following introduction and then watch the show ...

At Fire Fighting Training schools they demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer set   in an open 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 fireball 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.