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KitchenOilFire.wmv (Turn on your speakers. You MIGHT have to minimize this page to see the video.)

This is very good information; please watch the video. You might consider emailing it to your kids too. That way you know they'll actually listen to it! This video is only 34 seconds long but if you're ever in this situation it will save your kitchen, house and most of all YOU if you follow the advice.

Watch this video and learn what not to use to put out a grease fire. You might not have heard the wet towel approach yet.

At Charleston Navy base at the Fire Fighting Training school they demonstrate this with a deep fat fryer set on the fire field. An instructor would don a fire suit and using an 8 oz cup at the end of a 10-foot pole toss water onto the grease fire. The results got the attention of the students The water, being heavier than the oil, sinks to the bottom where it instantly becomes superheated. The explosive force of the steam blows the burning oil up and out. On the open field, it became a thirty-foot high fireball that resembles a nuclear blast.

Inside the confines of a kitchen, the fireball hits the ceiling and fills the entire room.

Also do not throw sugar or flour on a grease fire. One cup creates the explosive force of two sticks of dynamite.