Wow,
I don't even want that much adrennalin on a roller coaster!
Bryan Williams
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cezanne <oblique@alum.mit.edu>
To: Williams <bswilliams@myriad.net>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, June 16, 2000 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Have you seen a fire?
>At 7:08 PM -0500 6/16/00, Williams wrote:
>>As far as I know, you "usually" do not want to open the hood. That would
>>only allow more oxygen to reach the fire. Heat rises, so I've always been
>>told to blow the extinguisher under the fender and let the flow suck the
>>retardent up onto the fire.
>>IS THAT CORRECT????
>>I really want to know.
>
>This, that is precisely correct.
>
>The only time you want to open the hood is when going in through the
>grill or fender just doesn't work. I had a GT3 Sicrroco pull off at
>my station pumping flames out the vents in front of the windshield.
>I knocked it down several times both through the fender and through
>those vents. It kept coming back up. The driver looked at me and
>pointed to the hood latches, I nodded yes and covered him, he popped
>it (with his nomex on and visor down) and one quick zap on the carbs
>and it went out for good.
>
>--
>pZ -- Paul Cezanne (formerly Czarnecki)
>
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