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Put It Out - Fast!!

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As you probably long ago noticed, at both ends of the corridors on every floor of our buildings, there is a fire extinguisher mounted in a glass-doored cabinet.  Pulling the handle mounted outside this small metal box breaks the glass window and makes the extinguisher easy to grab in an emergency. Many of us also have our own extinguishers in our units usually in the kitchen. Fire extinguishers can not only minimize property damage but, most importantly, can save lives as well.  However, there is a question we should all ask ourselves about these devices.  As simple as they might seem, in an emergency, do we really have the knowledge and the skill to properly use an extinguisher. Should we call 911 if we think we can extinguish a fire ourselves?

Fortunately, there is an excellent web-site that answers this question and also provides drawings, animations and text that demonstrates the fundamentals of extinguisher use.  It also has other pages on how to report a fire, how to put out a grease fire and even how to quell a toaster fire. All of this is plainly discussed on the wikiHow web pages. You can access them now by clicking on the extinguisher below. ​  What you will learn is that putting out a fire in your unit requires you to do a number of things starting with keeping calm, calling for help and using the extinguisher, or other tools of fire fighting such as a wet towel, in the safest way possible for you, your family and the other residents of the building. The idea is to keep a bad situation from getting worse.

Hopefully, we will never have to use an extinguisher but, if we do, we should be prepared to know when to use it, how to use and when to get out as fast as possible.  Do yourself, your family and your neighbors a favor by reading this information.  And, if you haven't done so already, get yourself at least one extinguisher for your own unit and by all means learn its proper use.

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    • Sheldon and Deby Levi
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      • Painting Garage Floors
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