Fire safety should be done no matter what the cost, but you can expect to pay between $15 and $40 for a regular home use one. If you have a large house have one per floor that everyone knows how to get to and how to use. If you’re in a small or medium size [...]
Amazingly enough, they aren’t all the same. In fact using the wrong one can make the fire worse and you’ll lose everything. Each extinguisher has a label with a letter coresponding to what kinds of fire it will be put. Preferably you’ll get one that has more than one letter on it.
A fires: paper, wood, [...]
Just remember the acronym: PASS. This stands for:
Pull the Pin
Aim the nozzle
Squeeze the handle
Sweep from side to side until the fire is out.
In case there is a variation in that method for your particular unit PLEASE read the instructions first, just in case.
May 05, 2008 