Where do you put your fire extinguisher?

**jon3950** · 16th May 2017, 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by Tombie

May as well save the cost and hassle, and just get out and walk off

Where do you put your fire extinguisher?

Which is all you'll be able to do after emptying your 1 or 2kg extinguisher into an engine bay fire anyway.

Totally agree with you, Mike. There's not much point in carrying one for an engine bay fire. As an example, a 4kg fire bomb couldn't put this fire out. All that started it was a little hot oil on the turbo. The bomb put it out but once it was spent the heat of the turbo just re-ignited it. Several other hand-held extinguishers were used on it but the same thing kept happening. This is common in engine bay fires:

I've started carrying a fire blanket instead. I figure it will be more useful in putting out the type of fires I am likely to experience camping. I think it would also have at least as good a chance of putting out many vehicle fires as it does a better job of removing the oxygen than 1 or 2kg of dry powder. It's also much easier to keep at hand as it won't turn into a deadly projectile in an accident. Thankfully I haven't put my theory to the test yet.

Cheers,
Jon

**Redback** · 17th May 2017, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

Like Chris mine is in the back.....

But I have it bolted down to the top of my rear shelf between the cargo barrier and the back of my Engel. ( I'd prefer it was the other side of the cargo barrier to me in a crash.)

Might seem like an odd place - but my barrier is a half barrier - so simply tilting the left rear seat forward and its right there to grab.

I'll try and grab a photo when it's light out there!

Mine is behind the barrier but between the fridge and barrier on top of my drawers, I can access mine by folding the seat forward and get at it through a gap under the barrier, I have the half barrier.

I emptied a 2kg extinguiser into this, it was just a small fire at first and this is what it looked like in the time it took me to get back to the car to take this pick;

AND

by the time a full size extinguiser was emptied that had came from a truck, it was like this;

Tombie · 17th May 2017, 12:30 PM

Exactly.....

You either have a decent size unit handy and give it a go, or just don't have one and walk off....

Its a shame we cant locally source the 2,3,6l AFFF extinguishers. As a secondary device they do a good job at cooling the fire zone in an engine bay.

PeterJ · 18th May 2017, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Owl

If you need it, you need it in a hurry!

Hi Owl, the thing is the ADR states a 20g longitudinal forward pull. Let's keep the numbers simple and say the unit is 3kg, the load is 60 kg or 3 jerries full of fuel hanging off that plastic panel if you turn the whole thing 90 degrees clockwise in your mind. I agree with you it is an excellent position, even better in the same spot on the passengers side but how do you think the plastic panel will go?

Food for thought.

Peter

**ATH** · 19th May 2017, 08:33 AM

I saw the horrid aftermath of a little Morris 1100 which hit a lamp post and burst into flames 50 years ago. It happened not 200 metres from a fire station but by the time they got there it was all over.
Passenger had been trapped by his feet/legs when the engine was forced back in the crash. The fireman rolled the body out onto a canvas after the police medical examiner certified death. Fire was so fierce it's arms and legs were burnt off and head like a halloween (sp?) mask.
I drove home quite slow that night and didn't know until the local paper printed a pic that he was an old school mate.
Not nice to see and I'm thinking of where to put a decent extinguisher but in a fire like that as others have said the only thing to do is walk away.
AlanH.

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