This next month I am going to be covering fire preparedness. Now owing to my Scouting heritage, I can say with full confidence that there is almost no circumstance where fire is not a good thing. Fire makes everything better. My loving mother will surely attest to that, as she maintains to this day that I tried to burn down our house in O’Fallon (a statement that is patently not true)*.
Now those who think this is just going to be a pyromaniac how-to guide of various ways to combine fuel, oxygen, & sparks and are about to click away in disgust, let me say this:
Uncontrolled fire is a bad thing.
That’s why there are fire extinguishers. Fire extinguishers are a good thing too, since a conflagration in my house is certainly a circumstance where fire is not a good thing. So my suggested action today is that you answer two easy questions:
- Do you have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen where it is easily accessible?
- Is it charged?
Go check now. Then come back.
Really, I mean it.
Now as your reward for potentially saving your own life, here is a great video I found (in HD!!) on how to use the extinguisher.
Ok, so that was alright. But what of this Magnificent Public Service promised by the post title? That is this – every so often I am going to mention something like “You should check your fire extinguisher once a quarter”. But who really goes and writes that down? Therefore, I have created the BeyondBePrepared Google Calendar with all these snazzy reminders in them to help you remember to do this preventative maintenance & checks thing. Now if only I could figure out how to put the calendar in the side bar….
what was I doing?
-Battleblue1
