A more important statistic that this forum should determine and use for
sales work - what percentage of the members don't live in a sprinklered
house and why? How can we sell it to a homeowner, contractor or city
council if we don't practice what we preach?
Michael M. Fitz, P.E., C.F.E.I., C.F.P.S.
MDE Inc. 700 S. Industrial Way, Seattle, WA 98101
Home Office P.O. Box G, Shelton, WA 98584
206-321-1804
On 4/17/2011 2:03 PM, Stewart Kidd wrote:
That's why I spent 20 years of my life training people to use fire
extinguishers - train them at work, save them at home. I even trained expat
kids in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.
Of course sprinklers are the ideal but what percentage of US homes have them -
and you have installing them for 40 years - we've only be doing it for 15.
Stewart
On 17 Apr 2011, at 17:24, Ron Greenman wrote:
Stewart,
Just my advice. Ever watch someone with no training fiddle for many
seconds just trying to break the seal and then shooting agent at the
top of the flames. The intuitive thing to do is pull instead of twist
and to attack the flame instead of the fuel. Unfortunately the
intuitive thing is, like trying to break a fall buy putting out your
hands out instead of collapsing, twisting and spreading the fall out
across lots of bouncy leg, butt, and shoulder muscle instead of thin
skin and inflexible bone, wrong. I've voluntarily jumped out of
perfectly good airplanes, dumped motorcycles, fallen off small cliffs
and roofs and have been bruised and battered but never broken.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Michael Fitz<[email protected]> wrote:
Easy answer for that - I installed a sprinkler system. (And I am a fire
professional)
Michael M. Fitz, P.E., C.F.E.I., C.F.P.S.
MDE Inc. 700 S. Industrial Way, Seattle, WA 98101
Home Office P.O. Box G, Shelton, WA 98584
206-321-1804
On 4/17/2011 9:00 AM, Stewart Kidd wrote:
Ron
Would this include running if you have a stove top fire in your kitchen
and your house is 35 minutes response time from the nearest FD unit ?
Stewart
On 17 Apr 2011, at 15:55, Ron Greenman wrote:
Scot,
Rules of thumb I use regarding fire extinguishers:
Untrained--run
Trained layman--run if fire is bigger than you
Trained fire professional--run, there are too few to risk/spare
Firefighter--your call
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