{"id":750,"date":"2014-05-27T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:59:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:59:44","slug":"throwable-fire-extinguishers-you-had-me-at-fire-grenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Throwable Fire Extinguishers: You Had Me at \u201cFire Grenade\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/home.howstuffworks.com\/home-improvement\/household-safety\/fire\/how-do-throwable-fire-extinguishers-work.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/bb\/Disco_Ball3.jpg\/320px-Disco_Ball3.jpg\" alt=\"Disco ball and ceiling.\" width=\"263\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Products not recommended for disco infernos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fire is frightening and dangerous \u2013 that\u2019s why they call it fire. So it\u2019s a little strange that we have laws requiring us to stock canister extinguishers but not regulations requiring that we learn how, if or when to operate them. If you\u2019re like most people, you probably don\u2019t even know what kind of fire your extinguisher is rated for, and you likely have no idea when you last serviced or inspected the device, if ever.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a few companies have begun marketing new kinds of extinguishers, updated versions of fire grenades intended to make fighting fires as worry-free as possible. Lightweight and easy to use, they rely on the most basic of human skills: throwing. Which raises the question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.howstuffworks.com\/home-improvement\/household-safety\/fire\/how-do-throwable-fire-extinguishers-work.htm%20\" target=\"_blank\">How do throwable fire extinguishers work?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire is frightening and dangerous \u2013 that\u2019s why they call it fire. So it\u2019s a little strange that we have laws requiring us to stock canister extinguishers but not regulations requiring that we learn how, if or when to operate them. If you\u2019re like most people, you probably don\u2019t even know what kind of fire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Throwable Fire Extinguishers: You Had Me at \u201cFire Grenade\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,12,94,46,14,31,73,3,13],"tags":[17,819,823,820,822,5,821],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-consumer","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-green","category-how-to","category-materials","category-science","category-technology","tag-environment","tag-fire","tag-fire-extinguisher","tag-fire-grenade","tag-fire-tetrahedron","tag-inventors","tag-oxidation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}