QFRS Catching Fire series - Part 4 - Kitchen fire safety 

Had that Problem today. We were three people. Pot of a friend suddenly caught fire. We asked straight away, if there was oil in the pan and my friend said yes. Now luckily I knew that we should not use water! But then I went blank, how do I extinguish it without water. The pot had no lid, the fire was going up to the ceiling of the stove. I thought maybe towel over it, but that would have just bured. I was like shit - I have no idea how to stop this. Luckily my Hero Roommate was smarter, he quickly took a cloth/ kitchen towel, made it wet(not drenched though) and threw it over the pot which extinguished the fire (dont take this as advice - that might have been a dumb idea). We even had a fire blanket, but it was somewhere on the wall and I never used or really noticed it. So in the moment I did not think of using it. Will get more informed about this stuff in the future - it really can save your ass. These things always happen unexpectedly.

Very good video. Watching from Las Vegas, NV in the USA.

I suddenly understand why some other fire departments leave comments disabled.

Everything sounds better in an Australian accent, even fire safety vids! 🇦🇺👍 Greetings from the U.S.A.

Nice video - interesting to hear how other regions approach kitchen fires with a blanket. In U.S., it is exclusively compressed gas (minimizes clean-up) or dry chemical (messy clean-up).

Just watched this after setting fire to a pot with oil! I just held it outside until it burnt out. Now I know what to do next time (but hopefully there wont be!). Great video!

I used the fire blanket as a normal blanket and now I am on fire. What do I do?

This video helped me greetings from canda

Kitchen fires are a huge hazard - I personally know of two people that died this way: both alone in kitchen with loose clothes & failure to immediately think about smothering flames.

The biggest mistake made with oil fires is people forgetting to turn the heat off. Then when a lid or blanket is placed over the flames, the pan boils over and things get a whole lot worse. Even if you do nothing else, simply turning the heat off will result in the fire slowly dying out. Even if it is not possible to get near to the cooker, turning the gas or electricity off from the supply can save a lot of damage.

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anyone doin this for school?

I had to leave the kitchen today while cooking. I remembered this video. Thankfully I took a wooden spoon with me but my wife had other ideas and now I’ve burned my kitchen down and she has welts on her bottom from the spanking.

Watching from block island

When there is an oil fire I just sit on the pan

"You can stop a fire in a room by sucking all the air out of a room!" "A technology can be is built into a room or a building like an emergency vacuum system , in case of fire, that can suck all the air out of a room ( example the room where there is fire). By sucking all the air out of a room you have gotten rid of the air in the room and therefore the fire disappears. " "This technology also requires that all people and all living organisms exit/leave the room so that room can be closed shut when fire starts in the room.: When the room is closed shut it is air tight (example: door and other things like windows close and form an air tight seal so that no air can get out of room). Once the air tight doors and windows close the special ventilation holes in floor of room (example similar to ventilation holes in the floor) turn on and suck all the air out of the room very quickly." "Example: "If all the air is sucked out of the room that is burning in 1 minute...then the fire stops after 1 minute." "If all the air is sucked out the room that is burning in 30 seconds...then the fire stops after 30 seconds." "Remember the Fire Triangle:" "To have fire you need these 3 things/ingredients:" "Source of heat (example spark like in a gas oven where a spark ignites fire in oven)" = " the thing that starts the fire" "Material that burns (example paper)" "Air ( example oxygen)"...= "the thing that keeps the fire to contiue burning" "Fire depends on oxygen to keep going >,..So by getting rid of the air in a room the fire will disappear" "The fire in the room disappears because you have removed oxygen from the room. Oxygen is one of the key ingredients why a fire keeps on burning...So if you remove or get rid of oxygen in room by sucking all the air out of the room you remove/get rid of the fire."

The best y’all can do is use salt to stop the fire. If it’s a kitchen fire you will most likely always have salt around.

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nice

Why not turn off burners first?

Looks good to me except the advice to take a wooden spoon away with you to remind you you've left stuff cooking in the kitchen. I don't think a wooden spoon will sufficiently remind someone distracted by gripping TV/Video etc in another room. Blanket advice to never leave cooking unattended would be a better bet I think.

"Make sure it's approved for Australian standards " Endless forest fires in New year of 2020: Aye we're gonna need a bigger blanket :(

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Fire blankets aren't recommended anymore, because of the wick effect.

Yanks say it differently “Grease fire” instead of fat fire “Call the fire department” instead of ring the fire services.

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