How many fire extinguishers do you have?

[HopeHoops]

I've got ten in the house and one in each car.

[coconuted]

1. How big is your house? n/t

[HopeHoops]

4. 4 bedroom with a basement and a garage.

I've got two large (fuel rated) extinguishers in the garage, one front, one back.
The kitchen has a small grab and shoot by the stove and a regular canister on the other side.
Two in the basement, one by the stairs, one in the back corner.
Each of the 4 bedrooms has one.

That's ten.

Both cars also have one.

We also have fire ladders in each bedroom.

The cost is minimal when you put it in perspective.

[AllenVanAllen]

10. It sounds like an excellent idea for a car

but what are the temperature limits for storage? In Texas it gets dangerously hot in a closed up car in the summer time.

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

13. No idea - I'm in PA

I've had an extinguisher in the car year-round since I started driving in the late 70's. The only time I had a problem was very recently when I backed the electric seat over it and set the damn thing off! Freaked the SHIT out of me! I reversed direction so there was only a minor release. Other than that, they've done fine. I've only had three or four of them drop below the normal charge level in 30 years.

[Franzia]

2. 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the car. n/t

[av8rdave]

3. One in the kitchen

I had two until I sold my boat.

[flvegan]

5. One in the kitchen, one by the front door, one in the car.

[Catshrink]

6. I had a kitchen fire once...

not a bad one but scary enough to wake me up. I bought a fire extinguisher then and have had one near the kitchen ever since.

This happened in the fall and for Christmas that year I gave my sister and her husband a fire extinguisher. They looked at me like I was from Pluto or something. New Year's Eve they had a pizza and were watching a movie. Her husband tossed the pizza box into the fireplace and you know what happened. Suddenly I wasn't so weird anymore. I saved their house, they say. Of course, I've never had to use the one I bought.

[coconuted]

7. Wow

You make me feel like I should go get a couple more. Are you a fire fighter?

[HopeHoops]

8. No, a father.

I've had two fires in the past. One when a candle melted down in a trailer (smoke detector) and one with an electrical fault under the dash board of my car. I BLEW both of those out. Fire extinguishers are more efficient.

[coconuted]

18. O.K.

My house is much smaller then yours built in 1957 3 bed 1 bath I have a really good one in the kitchen and am going to get another one today for the back of the house. You have Inspired Me!!!

[XemaSab]

9. Thanks for this poll

Fire safety is totally nerdy until you have a fire.

[pokerfan]

11. How NOT to use a fire extinguisher

David Hyde Pierce demonstrates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIBk1a3qdQ#t=4m40s

[LeftyMom]

12. There's one around the corner by my carport.

I take it that's not the correct answer?

Then again, with an eight year old boy in the house, the disaster potential for keeping one in the sink is approximately 95%, so we're probably better off having to run a few feet away to grab one and eliminating the high likelihood of one being set off in the house when there's no fire.

Keep a lot of baking soda in the kitchen for grease fires, so you can smother them before they get out of hand. You can also cover up fires that start in a skillet or similar pan up with the pan's lid and smother them that way, in many cases. The trick is not to panic and to stop the problem before it gets larger.

[JonLP24]

14. No 0 option?

It doesn't apply to me as I have one but I thought some people may not have a FE in their home.

[HopeHoops]

15. I was wondering how long it would take someone to catch that.

It was intentional - a subtle message that zero should NOT be an option.

[JonLP24]

16. Oh ok, I agree with that

Also if you have the common fire extinguisher, regularly check the PSI(gauge in green) - not necessarily for you but for everyone reading this thread.

Sorry to nitpick since it was intentional, I thought you might wanted a voluntary sample of the number and I thought it was possible someone may not have one and just wanted to point it out. :hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. One really, really small really, really old (15 years) one in the kitchen.

[Kali]

19. I have a half dozen,

Just don't ask how old they are.

Had a fire start in a closet once - mice chewing on matches is the only thing we can think - set some .22 bullets off - that was a rush.

[Xithras]

20. One in the kitchen, one in the garage

Lots of people forget to put one in the garage, but that's where most of us store flammable materials, and is where many housefires start.

[MrSlayer]

21. None.

It's very unlikely that my house will ever be on fire. If it ever does somehow catch I have a hose in the front and one in the back plus 3 sinks.

[Mendocino]

22. Six

One in each car, 1 garage, 1 kitchen, 1 basement, 1 2nd floor.