Book Board Chat

You are absolutely right Kathleen about the Baking Soda, I also keep a box right next to my stove. You can smother a fire by putting a lid on a pan, but that still involves getting your hand too close to the heat. I also keep a small A B C fire extinguisher in kitchen, which also puts out all types of fire including the grease kind. It has to be the 3 kind extingusher. This is encase there is electrical fire as well (don't think baking soda would work on that.)

This year in California they made it mandatory to have a carbon monoxide detector in every apartment and house. I got one, but I am still trying to figure out why I might need one. It only detects carbon monoxide which is gas when fuel is inefficently burning, like charcoal. You have to have a flame to something inorder to hace CM. My sister's wood stove might make CM, but can't imagine anything in my apartment would. All my areas of concern is when the flame goes out and the gas fills a room (which is why natural gas has a odor to it, usually). I have a big problem with pilot light on stove going out.

so I don't see anything that would help me in that area.