Make sure that you have a fire extinguisher readily available.
If it takes you too long to get to it, you're not going to use it.
The other thing is you only want to use these for a very small fire.
We say essentially in your home, if you have a trashcan sized fire,
feel free to use your extinguisher.
If it gets bigger than that, please evacuate the home and call 911.
You want to make sure that the arrow is in the green here,
and that means that this extinguisher is fully charged and ready to be used.
We're going to take it out of the bracket.
This extinguisher that we keep in the house, it is a 2A, 10 BC and what
the ABC refers to are the types of fires that this extinguisher can put out.
The A is just simple combustibles,
like your paper towels, your cabinets, things like that.
The B is going to be your grease fires and C is energized electrical equipment.
And we have a mnemonic that we use.
It's called PASS.
It's Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep.
So they all have this little tab in here that the first thing you want to do
is pull that out. That prevents,
when it's in, from you accidentally discharging your extinguisher.
So you're going to pull that out,
you're going to take your hose and aim it at the base of the fire,
you're going to squeeze the handle to discharge the extinguishing agent
and then you're going to sweep back
and forth at the base of the fire to put that fire out.
If you don't get it out right away
again, exit the home and call 911 and get the fire department coming.