Smoke 'em if you got em. [Runaway diesel?]

[Petrol & Powder]

From FEMA . . .

an estimated annual average of 10,300 school property fires that required a fire department response. These school property fires caused an estimated annual average of 75 injuries and five fatalities.

Estimated ? Injuries and fatalities of STUDENTS?

We put forth great effort to protect students in schools from fire. Building codes, sprinkler systems, fire alarms, fire lanes, stand pipes, hoses, fire extinguishers and we practice fire drills.
What do we do to stop a school shooter when those events start?

Looks like 1958 was the last significant loss of life in a school from a fire.

NFPA - US school fires, grades K-12, with 10 or more deaths

These are the most deadly school fires in US history.

www.nfpa.org

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Fire Extinguishers are great for preventing small fires from becoming big fires. I'm glad we have them, and they are excellent tools.

Long ago we decided that we didn't want kids to die in schools from fires and we put forth extensive efforts to prevent deaths and injuries from fires. I think we did a very good job in protecting students from fires.

We do almost nothing to prevent deaths from mass murders in schools. Perhaps if we put forth a little effort in that field, we could see the same success rate in preventing deaths as we accomplished in fire situations. And I'm not talking about gun control.

 

[RBHarter]

Excluding insects and arachnids you're more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a wild animal circa 2000-2003 . Unless you're an outdoorsman then the wild animal attack edges lightning by almost twice ......unless you're a fisherman in which lightning is something like 6x more likely . It has something to do with carbon fiber rods and having to get that last cast .........
From F&S/Outdoor life .

Lots of folks go out with the idea that a bear , lion , or dog will have them on the menu but not many ever think about a lightning strick as they walk across the yard with a chrome and copper plated steel tube inverted satellite dish in one hand over their head .......

 

[Ian]

I wasn't talking about residential fires.
When was the last time someone died in a school fire?

Did you actually READ my post? I don't sleep in a school and that wasn't what Clint was talking about, either. Clint merely dropped the bomb for consideration and let us draw our own conclusions. Most of us have a "bedroom gun" but how many of us have a large fire extinguisher by the bed? The odds of the extinguisher saving your life or allowing you to beat back flames enough to dash down the hall and save your kids if they're too little to get out via their window is several orders of magnitude higher than the situation of a gun saving you from a violent home intruder.

As an aside, my "made a believer out of me" moment regarding fire extinguishers came when myself and another good samaritan witnessed a head-on collision between a Chevy pickup and Toyota Camry on an interstate service road (pickup was going the wrong way and they met at the top of a rise in the road). The immediate problem was the woman was trapped in the car with two broken legs but fuel plus crushed battery started an aggressive fire right in front of her and the windshield was partially blown out. I grabbed the old Kidde 5# from my trunk and the other guy ran up with a little boat extinguisher and between the two of us it was just enough to smother the fire before it engulfed the car. Turns out in a one in a million chance in a big city the woman's daughter knew my wife at the time, we heard later she recovered well but I never told her it was me who helped save her. I will NEVER be without a fire extinguisher in my vehicles.

 

[RBHarter]

Disneyland Anihiem has had 1 fatality since 1957 and 11 injuries .
The guy that stood up on the Matahorne roller coaster was killed just weeks after the park opened . That event resulted in the lap bars on all of the high speed rides and all coaster rides .

 

[462]

Disneyland Anihiem has had 1 fatality since 1957 and 11 injuries .
The guy that stood up on the Matahorne roller coaster was killed just weeks after the park opened . That event resulted in the lap bars on all of the high speed rides and all coaster rides .

Yep. I had two cousins (both dead now) who lived in Long Beach and went to school with the guy who stood up in the Matterhorn and was decapitated.

 

[Bret4207]

Some times you just have to keep your mouth shut and move on to another thread...

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Yes Ian, I read what you wrote.
I was responding to post #18, which is why I quoted that post in my response.

 

[BBerguson]

Because we are not allowed to have guns in our workplace, we have a fire extinguisher at the front counter for protection. Better than a knife and I imagine if you got a face full of fe stuff you’d be wheezing awile.

 

[L Ross]

Because we are not allowed to have guns in our workplace, we have a fire extinguisher at the front counter for protection. Better than a knife and I imagine if you got a face full of fe stuff you’d be wheezing awile.

Spray for wasps and yellow jackets. The foam stuff, shoots a stream 25' accurately and with a tight pattern. I wouldn't want it in my face.

 

[Bret4207]

Spray for wasps and yellow jackets. The foam stuff, shoots a stream 25' accurately and with a tight pattern. I wouldn't want it in my face.

It's also flammable, so keep a lighter handy. You can use the extinguisher to put the BG out...if you think of it.