Fire Extinguishers - New Type - car & home

[C&C]

Not sure if other people are aware of this - I only picked up on it last week at fire warden training for our move to a brand new building at work, where we are using only a single type of portable fire extinguisher - water mist. No need for water, foam, CO2, and powder.

Basically, it uses de-ionised water (so completely clean unlike powder/foam), but rather than squirting the water in a jet, it forms a mist which gets drawn to the fire, cooling it and starving it of oxygen.

It is safe and very effective to use on normal solid fires, liquid (petrol), chip pans, and even ok on electrical (tested up to 35kV). It also leaves no mess as it's just water mist, so doesn't even soak whatever is on fire. The mist cloud also acts as a shield protecting the person operating it. Sounds almost too good to be true, but apparently it really is a bit of a revolution in portable extinguishers.

I was so impressed I immediately ordered a 3 litre one to replace the 5kg dry powder one in the kitchen, and a 1 litre one to replace the 1kg powder one in the Noble. Powder is ok, but makes a hell of a mess and if used in an engine bay, apparently is quite corrosive.

Some further info:
Fire site

Manufacturer site

I bought them from this place
 -  no connection with them, just best price I could find with a brief look on the web.

Thought I'd share the info as it was news to me.

Cheers,

Conrad.

Edit to correct link

Edited by C&C on Tuesday 4th June 16:18

[chuntington101]

Interesting that thu have brought them to the car markert. I have used both water mist and dray powder. Can't beat the shear stopping power of dry powder though! But your right about the mess. I wonder if you would need a bigger cylinder than for dry powder?