Halon replacement coming to Target

According to Book of Joe, Target will began selling http://www.summitenvironmental.com/ fire extinguishing agent in an aerosol can. Wow, that is super cool, and knowing its now in the consumer realm its gotta be pretty cheap as well.

I’ve been in a few fires over the years, and inevtiably have had to use dry chem. The first big one was an airplane fire. 100LL burns without any color, so you can’t really tell where the flames are, other than by optical bending. First we hit it with the CO2, which was out of date, and was non-functional. Next it was 3 huge dry chem units, hoping that it would by us time to call CFR (crash fire and rescue) from across the field. After 2-1/2 of the dry chem units were used up, the fire was out. But… we had dry chem everywhere. It took the better part of a week to get it cleaned up.

A couple years ago I had a snowmobile fire. Unfortunately the only thing I had was dry chem. It put it out, but the mess was amazing. The other issue was that the fire restarted when I went over to check on it. Out of instinct I fired off the extinguisher. Well, that instantly hit me in the face with a mix of gas, fire, smoke, and dry chem agent. Fortunately I didn’t get burned, but breathing that mixture put me in the hospital, thus delaying the cleanup. Even 8 months later, I was still cleaning off drychem.

If I would have had this foam, chances are the sled would have cooled enough to minimze secondary ignition. In addition, cleanup looks to be a no brainer, with only minimal concern for corrosion, unlike dry chem.

Now, it just has to arrive at Target!!!

Are your extinguishers current? Do your smoke detectors have batteries? Do you have an extinguisher on each floor and in the garage and each vehicle. If not, as John Luc Picard would say, make it so.