Powder verses CO2

Tuesday again, no meeting, training and development instead. We learnt how to use fire extinguishers today. There are six different types for varied types of fires and available at varying costs.

The presenter was a bit of a joker with a lot of cracks about how he became bald. There were also a number of methane jokes told. Three people were asked at the start of the training to go and grab a fire extinguisher of a particular type. They came back 10minutes later with only one extinguisher. We were all burnt to a crisp according to the bald presenter.

Saw a video of a house fire that started from a single match and got so hot a window burst after 2 minutes. The fire department takes 6 minutes to get to my workplace.

Powder extinguishers are $40 but they destroy electrical items such as computers the alternative CO2 extinguishers are $100 and are safe. Because they are cheaper we have only got powder extinguishers. If there was a fire we would use a $40 extinguisher and ruin $100 000 worth of equipment. Apparently we cant afford to buy CO2 extinguishers.

Science department asked - "Is that one sodium bicarbonate?"
PE department (in response to "has anyone used one of these in the last year") "yes, I used one I had lying around to teach my kids"
Tech Studies department asked - "what if a child is on fire, which one do we use then?"  ¶ 6:01 PM