Re: [A/S] safety Fire extinguisher location

["Carol and Oliver Filippi" <ofilippi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The worst kind of a fire is one at sea.  Which is the source of this advice
as to where to locate a fire extinguisher (from a marine fire expert who
spoke to a group of motor boat owners many years ago).

Do NOT put the fire extinguisher near the fire hazard.  [Even though, at
first blush, this appears to be the logical thing to do.]  Instead, mount
the fire extinguisher BY AN EXIT.  Of course the first reaction, in the
event of a fire, is to get out.  Then, if the fire isn't too bad, one might
get a fire extinguisher and go after the fire. [No one in their right mind
is going to run thru a fire to reach the fire extingiuisher!  Hence the
reason to mount it by the exit.]

I personally like a carbon dioxide extinguisher, as it is completely
nontoxic.  You can put out a grease fire on the stove, and still eat the
food.  The reason they are not very popular, is because of the need for a
very strong, high pressure tank (which is expensive) compared to the light
weight tank of a powder extinguisher, which does not need to withstand the
high pressure of liquid CO2.

Oliver Filippi