have you checked your truck Fire Extingishers lately?
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:19 am
hey guys and gals, when was the last time you checked your truck (and house (YOU DO HAVE ONE IN YOUR KITCHEN DONT YOU, along with smoke alarms!!!!)) extingishers,Remember that Fire Extingishers have a 5 year life from manafacture date then they must be Pressure tested and recharged or replaced (for 2.3kg upwards ones, 1kg ABE types it cheaper just to bin them and replace)
to check them have a look on the ext for a stamped date eg 09 05 .. then add 5 years to that date ,if your over REPLACE OR RECHARGE them asap, just checking the guage is showing "geen" dosnt mean it will still work 100% effectively when/if your $15k truck (or 300k + house) starts smoking
reason Im reminding people (apart from the fact that I work in the fire security industry ) is the fact that I saw the "remains" of a situation where the fire ext was waaaay (like manafactured 1984) out of test and when needed to put out a small electrical fire at a minor crash scene did nothing more than pi$$ the fire off end result was the car burned out rather than containing the blaze to a small section of the engine bay
thankfully no one was hurt. but a working ext would have saved the victoms car as well.
to check them have a look on the ext for a stamped date eg 09 05 .. then add 5 years to that date ,if your over REPLACE OR RECHARGE them asap, just checking the guage is showing "geen" dosnt mean it will still work 100% effectively when/if your $15k truck (or 300k + house) starts smoking
reason Im reminding people (apart from the fact that I work in the fire security industry ) is the fact that I saw the "remains" of a situation where the fire ext was waaaay (like manafactured 1984) out of test and when needed to put out a small electrical fire at a minor crash scene did nothing more than pi$$ the fire off end result was the car burned out rather than containing the blaze to a small section of the engine bay
thankfully no one was hurt. but a working ext would have saved the victoms car as well.