Fire Safety Blankets to stop pan fires spreading
If you do a lot of home cooking, you should be well aware of the risks that are entailed by cooking regularly using a gas stove or oven. If not used properly, the gas can spread and ignite and cause a pan fire. To avoid this from developing into a huge house fire, a fire blanket can be stored near to the oven so that if such an event occurs, the fire safety blanket can be put over the fire to smother it. Without access to air, the fire cannot sustain itself, and will die out. This is why fires can be put out by covering them with sand or a non-flammable blanket.
In order for a fire to keep burning, it needs to have all three elements of the ‘fire triangle’ to hand. The Fire Triangle is made up of heat, fuel and oxygen. These are the three things that must be present in order for a fire to burn. If one of these is taken away, the fire cannot burn. The two easiest things to remove from a fire triangle are the fuel, and oxygen. Given that a gas oven relies on gas as a fuel for cooking, it can sometimes be difficult to completely cut off the gas supply to your oven. Therefore, in the instance of a gas fire, the easiest solution to stop the fire spreading is to stop the oxygen supply to the fire, but stopping air from reaching it.
The majority of fire blankets for use in the kitchen are secured to the wall or somewhere accessible in the kitchen, and stored inside a special quick release box. The box has two fabric cords coming out of it, which, in the event of needing to access the fire safety blanket, can be pulled. The bottom of the box opens and the fire safety blanket comes out.
When trying to smother the flames from the pan fire, approach the fire with the blanket held vertically in front of you. Your hands should be at the two top corners of the blanket, with it hanging beneath them. Gradually drape the blanket over the flames in a direction away from your body – the first part to touch the pan should be the bottom of the blanket, with the blanket smothering the flames further away from you. With the pan covered, make sure the gas (or other fuel you’re using) is turned off. If the blanket is unsuccessful in putting out the fire, call the fire service immediately from a safe location.
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