Important information to know!

This is about Kitchen Fire Safety which I received as a mail forward and I thought I should share this here for every body's benefit.

This is my first post on MS and it is not original but I thought what the heck if it benefits everybody so be it.

This is a dramatic video (30-second, very short) about how to deal with a common kitchen fire ... oil in a frying pan.

Please read the following introduction and then watch the video...It's a real eye-opener!!

At the Fire Fighting Training school they would 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 resembled a nuclear blast. Inside the confines of a kitchen, the fire ball 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.

This is a powerful message…. watch the video and don't forget what you see. Tell your whole family about this video.