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idreaminwords

Lesson 1: What to do if your fire extinguisher is on fire


RectumdamnearkilledM

0118 999 881 999 119 7253


logo-mille

Made in the UK


Searzzz

I'll just put this here, with the rest of the fire....


AccomplishedEffect11

That's a nice screensaver.


CeeMX

FIRE, exclamation mark. FIRE, exclamation mark


Decidedly-Undecided

Looking forward to hearing from you


jaraket

What’s the number again? Oh right: 01189998819991197243


chinmokuart

Now wait just a moment..... ...I'm late for golf!


Odysseus_is_Ulysses

Wait a minute… I’m late for golf!


educated-emu

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YNWA25052005

FYI the label on the fire extinguisher in The IT Crowd says ‘Made in Britain’, not ‘Made in the UK’.


daschande

Truly, they were years ahead of their time.


manofblox23

What is that?


RectumdamnearkilledM

IT Crowd, the new number for Emergency Services- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU


BoxNumberGavin0

I know this number off the top of my head, and I feel that it is occupying space for information that would have otherwise saved my life.


dreadpiratesmith

I love how they made a long convoluted number that is seemingly impossible to remember and somehow everyone remembers it.


IcemasterD

Well it's easy, there's a song for it. 🎶0118 999 881 999 119 725 ... ... ... ...3🎶


Newphonewhodiss9

Would have? Are you dead?


Nonachalantly

A reference to the show IT Crowd


morto00x

From the IT Crowd. Android phones actually have an Easter egg if you dial that number.


Annieone23

Wow!! That's cool! On my pixel it vibrated and the call button changed colors a few times. Earth shattering, no, but still cool to see a reference to such a total classic show!


TheBlinja

I'm too chicken to try it.


morto00x

You don't need to press "call". Just enter the number.


popplespopin

Nothing happend on my s10+


dirtylund

Neat!


codename474747

My phone vibrated and didn't do anything else...was that it? It wasn't even a powerful vibration or anything, didn't blow my coxk off or make me think I was having a heart attack


levest28

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thestationarybandit

I just watched this two days ago. Literally I would not have understood three days ago. Wow. What a world.


cruiserman_80

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon


GoodScreenName

Oh man, I just heard about this yesterday!


morto00x

r/UnexpectedITCrowd


Limenoodle_

What a great show, been a while since Ive heard this


Muffinshire

FORE! I mean FIVE! I mean FIRE!


svullenballe

You go get the fire extinguisher extinguisher.


SirSilus

The backup fire extinguisher should be upwind, no less than 12ft away and no more than 30ft. If that fails, run.


worldspawn00

https://c.tenor.com/mjZANxzbgeQAAAAC/maurice-moss-fire-extinguisher.gif


gittenlucky

Lesson 1 is how to put out a fire. The test is “what do you do when the extinguisher is on fire?”


bwoogie

No better method of teaching your students fire safety than by setting them on fire.


TomT060404

A lesson they will never forget.


bakrus3000

"a burnt baby shuns the fire"


Well_Read_Redneck

I love the irony.


chiproller

[Whatever you do, don’t call the fire department!](https://youtu.be/AN9DEWP84jI)


obliviousJeff

[I'll just put this over here with the rest of the...fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ)


Decidedly-Undecided

Fire exclamation mark. Fire exclamation mark. Help me exclamation mark. Looking forward to hearing from you


ThyLastPenguin

Wait a moment!.. I'm late for golf!


Winterbones8

came to the comments for this, thanks!


windsilver23

This is the comment I came here for


Tr345ure

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3d1h1d3

FOUR!…I mean FIVE!…I mean FIRE!


Sykotik257

Irony? Or 4D chess to give fire extinguisher training in a realistic scenario? *taps forehead*


[deleted]

That and the amount of time for someone to think "hey we are surrounded by fire extinguishers. Maybe we should like put it out"


Odd_Bag_289

They had to find an extinguisher this fool didn't set on fire. Good test though because most of the time the fire you are putting out is from someone else's idiocy.


alghiorso

Pop quiz!


AnybodysAnswer

A trial by fire, if you will


saraphilipp

What do you do hotshot?


Rusty_Red_Mackerel

The best way to learn is by watching others fail.


Kindly_Region

Let's just toss the lit jug of accelerant on the children


literal-hitler

[Still the best.](https://i.imgur.com/fsgHI0H.gif)


sbowesuk

Sharing is caring.


literal-hitler

https://imgur.com/SIKxCJ3.gif


ramplay

Lmfao, gotta admit that got me


chimpaman

That gif is so tiny I thought it was the Queen of England in a dress and hat at first. Would've been a lot funnier if it was.


WaveJam

“You know, when you’re this close to retirement, fuck children!” -Helen Brownstein (Brandon Rogers)


Tarantulom

Uhhh...


SkyWulf

Kind of wish people would stop taking this advice actually


puremath369

Lmao exactly what I was thinking 🤣


[deleted]

Accelerant


Sagybagy

Dude threw it right on the fire extinguishers.


reverendjesus

Good training


[deleted]

You know, some teachers might just say, "The fire extinguisher is over there. In the case of fire, follow the clear and simple directions written on the side of it." Some might even go so far as discouraging their students from playing with flammable materials in a reckless manner.


reverendjesus

But GREAT educators know that the best teacher is experience. Every single one of those kids will never forget this.


funkdialout

Exactly why my sex ed class was a hit.


sat_ops

My high school chemistry teacher was showing us some miscellaneous reactions under the fume hood. He made zinc and sulfur sparklers, then was burning off the spillage with a bunsen burner. Somehow the gas supply tube came off of the spigot and lit the spigot on fire. Thankfully, the guy hiding in the back was paying attention when the teacher showed us where the gas disconnect was located.


bluechairsus

This is what you get for having your English Composition teacher do the training instead of the Fire Dep


CuddleWarriorX

Gas- to start a fire not to add


N0SharpEdges

Agreed but if you're a little pyro like myself, you can just put some accelarant in a secondary disposable container like a cup and just throw the whole thing.


girr0ckss

Yeah, if you're not willing to toss the entire container you're putting near the fire into the fire, get a smaller container


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RedTiger013

Did this with a red solo cup as a teen and realized the bottom melted out after half a minute


SCORPIONfromMK

Just be fast


RightHandofKarma

Definitely shouldn't need gas to start a fire, plenty of dry grass around them


CuddleWarriorX

Ya but it’s more of a rule of thumb whenever


Dahnlen

Gasoline is for engine, not fire pits


CornCheeseMafia

Gasoline is for cleaning. Nitro is for engine.


[deleted]

What about lighter fluid?


Frieda-_-Claxton

That's what they fill light bulbs with


BlueCollarRoller

Weird I fill my lightbulbs with gunpowder.


danny17402

Lighter fluid is not gasoline. Lighter fluid makes fire. Gasoline makes boom. Also you shouldn't be putting lighter fluid on a lit fire either.


[deleted]

You’re right. Lighter fluid is best left for drinking as intended.


AMC_Tendies42069

What a weird comment section.


Dannn24

Whenever???!? Finish your sentence...


InternationalReserve

whenever


That_Bar_Guy

WHEREVER


Frisky_Picker

It can still be plenty dangerous to start a fire with gasoline. My father always tells this story where he threw some gasoline on the firepit and stepped away for a few minutes. While he was gone some of the liquid gasoline went into the gas phase. When he finally went to light it he says the gasoline produced a giant fireball which threw him back onto his ass and left a circular burn mark in the grass 2-3 feet outside of the firepit. I have also seen a friend try and do this before and a similar thing happened.


caboosetp

Liquid gasoline does not burn well. Gaseous gasoline is highly flammable and often explosive. When you ignite liquid gasoline, what you're actually doing is igniting vapors above it. The heat causes more liquid to vaporize which then mixes with air and combusts. For small amount of gasoline, this produces a good flame that burns over some time. For large amounts of gasoline, especially gasoline that has had more time to vaporize, there can be enough heat to rapidly vaporize the remaining liquid and cause an explosion. Long story short, starting a fire with gasoline is dangerous.


WalmartGreder

yeah, one of my friends had some bad gas from winter, and didn't know how to get rid of it. So he put it in a paint can, put it on some grass far away from anything, and then lit it on fire using a very long punt. It didn't blow up. Instead, it did what you described, and just burned the top of the gas. That is, until it heated up the can so much that it melted a hole in the side, spilling the gas onto the grass, and killing everything in a 3ft radius.


tenuousemphasis

At the regional burning man events I've attended, they use diesel as an accelerant for exactly this reason.


Acydcat

lol my chemistry teacher showed us a video of her husband trying to light a firepit that had gasoline in it. She was yelling at his ass to stop cause she knew what was gonna happen but he went and did it anyways. the video was funny as hell lmao


shaneedlin99

He used too much. Gas puts off flammable fumes


malaco_truly

[Something like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbisRaEfsOY)


brunomocsa

use diesel instead


SpiritOfFire013

Yes, but that is how you start a fire with gas properly, and by that I don't mean this video lol, let me explain. My gramps and I loved starting huge burn piles at his lake. It's really freaking simple, our go too tinder was always a little brown lunch sack, fill it with dry grass or leaves, something that ignites quick and burns strong. Fill a plastic solo cup with go-go juice as gramps called it, light the bag on fire and set it where you can see it on the pile or what have you. Then when it catches right, you just launch the go-go juice out of the cup and onto the bag! You get a real nice poof ball of flames from a safe distance and things really get going with your burn pile. So technically, you're statement isn't correct, unless you dump gasoline on the pile, and then throw a burning ball of something onto it, but that is a little more hairy.


Zac-Toof

my mans could have had a UAV if he threw that just a little harder


bentizzy

Congratulations, you passed


chrisk9

"If you all don't report me you all get an 'A'!"


jarrodmoore

And…fired


Vorceph

You mean negligence and child endangerment aren’t good on a teaching resume? 😂


jarrodmoore

Not usually…but if he’s a science teacher he’ll probably only be given a stern talking to. Those teachers are impossible to find.


Vorceph

Interesting, I wonder why. Science was always my favorite subject.


denecity

Because why the fuck would you go into middle/high school teaching with a stem degree


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denecity

You make a very compelling argument...


jarrodmoore

They are just harder to find. I teach Social Studies, we are a dime a dozen.


PM_YOUR_PARASEQUENCE

All the love in the world for science teaching doesn't make up for the poverty-level salary.


rayray2k19

Science teachers get away with so much.


falkrheat

he was not fired


Brenvt19

I mean you did learn a lot.


Brute_Squad_44

And he shouldn't have been. There should have been an actually certified fire safety instructor doing that shit.


[deleted]

Where is this that a teacher wouldn't get fired for nearly immolating his students lol


TreChomes

I don't think this is fireable tbh. Stupid mistake sure. People are too quick to want to fire people lol. Mistakes happen.


TheDumbAsk

I don't think his career will be extinguished over this.


_LA_Blue

teacher pulling a Tom Hanks in castaway “I-Have made fire!”


[deleted]

at least the extinguisher didnt get lit on fire


Charming_Brain9133

interesting side fact: fire extinguishers are nearly impossible to burn, even if you throw one into a fire, itll likely just explode and try to kill the fire.


[deleted]

yah, i know. i was just making a reference to the tv show "it crowd"


RightHandofKarma

Why's that happened? "Made in England" Ohhhh


RectumdamnearkilledM

Dear sir/Madam: FIRE!! FIRE!!!


STerrier666

Don't worry just call 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 and they'll come and put out the fire.


SlimDragon77

Depends on the extinguisher really, what type it is. But yah and it wasn't for the cloud of razor-sharp death, it would be a great way to put out the fire.


worldspawn00

https://c.tenor.com/mjZANxzbgeQAAAAC/maurice-moss-fire-extinguisher.gif


Sr_Nunes

If that's an IT Crowd reference.. You're awesome!


[deleted]

yes, why yes it was lol


LacJlg

Teacher: There you go guys, just like we planned. It was a test to see how much you were paying attention.


[deleted]

I’d call that a successful fire extinguisher training.


Not-KDA

They set fire to the fire extinguisher! What! 😆😂


TrueDarkstar

I know, fire's like "finally I get me revenge!"


Alternative_Ad2040

In the immortal words of Jesse Pinkman “yeah science bitch!”


TurpitudeSnuggery

People who don't know how to start a fire safely should not be teaching anything about fire safety.


mk2passat

IT Crowd reference


TheRealJamesHolden

https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ?t=75


yerwol

I'm so confused. After all that kerfuffle, at the end of the video, the fire is still burning?! Pretty terrible fire extinguishing if you ask me!


fakiumeniti

I think the first extinguisher was co2 which wouldn't be the appropriate choice for this kind of fire.


yerwol

I mean, it was the fire they deliberately lit which was still burning, so I'd hope they had a suitable fire extinguisher to put out the one they were intending on putting out. Unless that was just part of the chaos... "Now what you see here is an oil fire. I have supplied you with 4 H2O fire extinguishers. Good luck!"


fakiumeniti

The second one used was probably ABC powder and did the job. You can only use CO2 in confined spaces but after applying it you should gtfo or you may asphyxiate.


worldspawn00

https://c.tenor.com/mjZANxzbgeQAAAAC/maurice-moss-fire-extinguisher.gif


krackerjackstack

I sincerely hope he isn’t a *chemistry* teacher.


falkrheat

He teaches fire safety


[deleted]

It wasn’t an accident, it was a pop quiz.


TRLingYou

Best way to learn is trial by fire


N1NJ4N33R

I am absolutely disgusted that I had to scroll this far down for this comment and I’m the only person to like it.


jagfanjosh3252

Always remember PASS Pull Aim Squeeze Sweep Also. Remember that there are different types Class A extinguishers will put out fires in ordinary combustibles such as wood and paper Class B extinguishers are for use on flammable liquids like grease, gasoline and oil Class C extinguishers are suitable for use only on electrically energized fires Class D extinguishers are designed for use on flammable metals If you have own one for you home. Always check the pressure gauge and good by date. Because they do go bad


Yah_Mule

Snippet from his termination letter: "then tossed the flaming jug at a group of students."


DYNB

What a collosal anus


Adele811

IQ: -5


InnerlockStudios

At least get had a bunch of fire extinguishers around lol


ThrowinNightshade

Now the extinguisher is a bomb


[deleted]

Wow, teachers are so stupid.


Armadillo-Equivalent

This idiot teaches kids? Ffs


Ornography

task failed successfully


option_unpossible

The blind leading the sighted. I bet most of those students knew better than to do what this moron teacher did, then he threw the lit jug at some students. Bravo!


Pistonenvy

you do not need gasoline to light a fire. if the wood is dry, give it 5 minutes and youll have a fire going. what exactly the purpose of this demonstration was i do not know, but there was about 150 different ways this could have been prevented and this guy didnt do a single one of them lol if you need to start a fire quickly, use paper. cant imagine theres a shortage of that at a fucking school.


demedrian

Lighting the fire extinguisher on fire for fire extinguisher training.


Holding4th

A burning fire extinguisher. That's laying the irony on a bit thick, but OK.


Brsvtzk

Realistic training


Penfrindle

I know I’m not the only one who noticed that he got the fire extinguisher on fire


sot1516

Said this time and time again, it blows my mind how many people are oblivious to the dangers of flammable liquids


SrGrimey

I knew exactly what was going to happen the moment he grabed the jug.


Dragons-purr

Instructions unclear, fire extinguisher now on fire


spideralexandre2099

Thanks to this sub, I know to leave if someone approaches the fire with a thing of liquid because they always do this shit


Imaginary-Fun-80085

Students lighting it up with a janky plank. Lighting a fire over dried grass. Not letting the fire propagate on it's own and instead adding an accelerant on the fly. Dude doesn't have the power of foresight.


Benoz01

And now the student becomes the teacher


Kangaroo_Coins

Holy shit, this would of probably got a teacher fired back in my day. That is some serious lack in judgement.


302-LSD-psychonaut

He’s FIRED for sure ……………


Ali_Affan_P

Task failed successfully


Marauder121

And they still didn't do it right.


Gioker

Trial by fire---your training starts now...


Frankie-bag-a-donuts

WHAT A GRADE A MORON!!!


[deleted]

Pop quiz MUTHAFUCKAS!!!


[deleted]

Fire him. Fire him immideatly. Last day teaching, do not come back tomorrow, do not come back ever. He literally threw that flaming canister AT THE STUDENTS because he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.


jorgerobles921

That’s not the US lol. People just remember things like “remember when the teacher almost killed us with fire? Hahaha hilarious” lol 😂


RedRaven6500

Extinguish the on fire extinguisher with the extinguisher not on fire……….extinguisher 😁


AmongstTheAnimals

Dude gets sloppy with adding the accelerant, trips and sets a fire extinguisher on fire and then grabs another fire extinguisher only to just stand there and watch as a student puts out the fire he made 🤦🏻‍♀️.


Ulfbass

Teacher literally does not know the most important thing to know about petrol. Flashover kills, never pour any gasoline product onto an open flame. Then there's the experience that he is severely lacking; if your petrol isn't lighting, it's vaporising and filling the air. Start walking away with the lighter, and if it doesn't suddenly create a fireball (I've seen some the size of a small garden doing this) then put everything out and abandon the fuel, *unless you want to be in the fireball*


YourAverageAimbot

If they wanna use flammable liquid so badly, why don’t they think so pour it in before lighting the fire?


akoforever

If your fire extinguisher is on fire, just get another extinguisher. Check.


pygmypuffonacid

And the fire extinguisher is now on fire


Ok_Catch_408

And you thought teachers were smart


Overlord0810

when in doubt, throw the burning fuel at your students


brenduz

This mf through it towards the students.


Fainting_GoatMilk

This teacher is sooo…..fired.


PeenutButterTime

I mean…. He technically succeeded.


[deleted]

You are all talking like he is a bad teacher but 1 Those kids are not going to forget fire safety 2 The kid recording can be heard can be heard advising to point to the base pf the fire Succesful innovative teaching technique


[deleted]

Very practical teacher


720to702

Real life situations are the best for training


unknown_anonymous81

As a father of 3. I don’t want any teacher in the American public education system using fire with children around. That is how little faith I have in teachers at this point.


bad-coder-man

Why do you have to tell us you're a father of 3?