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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to another episode of Prepper Talk Radio for the
Ready Minded. With your host Scott Shane and Paris. We
are here today to discuss how to prepare and prevent fires. Yes,
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(00:26):
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(01:54):
how you guys doing. How's how you been since we
did the last episode and number one number two, let's
jump into fire preparedness.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, I could complain, but you know nobody listens, so
no use in complaining, So I don't usually complain. So
I'm just just and I probably say this way too often.
I'm just it's just crazy out there, It's insane. You know,
I'm a broken record when it comes to how things
are like out there, so I won't go TV too
(02:25):
far into that. Scott, Well, we'll.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Have to talk about that next episode with Yes. The
Crazy of September, Holy smokes man, September what a month.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I've been good. I actually went hiking with with
one of one of the minions this weekend. It was
a lot of fun. We talked. Actually, it was good
because we actually talked about fire safety on the trail,
identifying that there's a lot of fire hazards where we were.
I'm like, wow, they have not cleared anything here. It
is exceedingly dangerous. If a fire ups where we were,
(02:58):
I'm like, it is not good. So that's one of
the things we've got to talk about. So let's shall
we dive into it, because there's there's so many things.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I think. This topic was something that I brought up
because in my local town, uh it's in Utah, one
of the there was a huge house fire and it
was all over our local news because it's something that's
so crazy and it's really not something we have very often.
But this family was devastated, obviously, and they were asking
for help and donations and other things, and so I thought,
(03:30):
you know what, maybe we ought to do an episode
on fire preparedness, like another one of those how tos.
We haven't done a how to prepare for whatever insert
natural disaster, insert whatever in a while. So I was like,
let's what do you think, guys, And they said, yeah,
let's let's talk about it. So, I mean, when you
have a house house fire is probably you know, when
it comes to a fire, that's probably going to be
(03:50):
more off, more common in terms of what we'll encounter.
But you know, definitely if you're out hiking or running,
there's so many fires now in the in the forests,
in the the in the the dry grass that we
need to prepare to be ready for that too.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I think, like Scott was saying, is number one is awareness,
Right your kids have my kids, you know, I have
really no idea what the dangers are when they're out
out hiking, for example, And I mean that's a perfect,
perfectly great example, your hike along. You see how dry
it is. That's that's some danger that should set up
(04:27):
a little warning flag and say, oh we need to
be very careful. Uh, of course, depending on where you
are in the train and so forth. But I mean
also around your home and and the situation you find
yourself in. Is that awareness and also awareness you know
post collapse in the in armageddon and such. So that's
kind of where my thoughts go is how do we
(04:48):
uh prevent? How do we prepare? How do we put
out fires post collapse when we're doing it ourselves, when
there's no one to call, right when we're only relying
on our community.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Well, well, I know for sure with brush fires, and
I always I think it's cool. I mean, I okay,
let me let me qualify this. It's not cool that
a fire is happening. But I always enjoy watching these
farmers clear or break make a fire break when there
when there's a huge fire crumbling across their field. They
(05:24):
run the tractor and they make a fire break so
that it won't that it stops the fire. And so
I was thinking about, you know, when you if you're
out in the woods or something like that, you got
to create a fire break of some kind. Usually if
you're out in the open like that, you're not going
to just by yourself. It's going to be really hard,
I think, to do. But you know, one thing that
you can do is if you've got Well, if you're
(05:46):
if you're hiking in the wilderness and there's a huge
fire coming after you, I don't think you're going to
stop it. I don't think you're gonna have a fire break.
I think that at that point you just got to
run as fast as you can. Now, Now, what's the
what is the rule of thumb? When you have a
fear in the wilderness, you're maybe on a mountaintop or
on a slope, do you run up or do you
run down? I can't remember there was I can't. I
(06:07):
think there was something that he told me. You run,
you run a certain direction because the fire is going
to naturally go the other direction. Do you guys remember
what that is? Am I making that up? Or Well?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Fire does like to burn vertically, right, we know that.
But it chases, It chases where one the wind's pushing it.
It chases flammable resources. It's hungry, right, it's eating. It's
always looking for fuel. So wherever the fuel is is
where it's going to go. It doesn't care up or down.
My brother used to be well lane firefighter. And the
(06:39):
thing is is, it's like, if the wind's blowing, you
need to be going the same direction the wind is
blowing to get away from the fire, right you go
away from the fire and away from and where to
the wind is going and off off the path right
out of the way of where the fire and where
the fuel is. Have you ever, guys, have you guys
ever watched did you go crazy?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let me clarify what you just said, Scott, do you
go into the wind so.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That or you go down with the wind?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You go with me, so you go down the way? Okay,
down wind?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like you want to get with the wind and until
you're out of the wind and out of the fire,
right you're The problem is, though, like depending on where
you are and what conditions are, like, there's a bunch
of different things. Like if you're in the planes, right,
here's the thing. If you're in the planes and there's
brush fire, the smartest thing to do is to burn
a new fire line, right to let put the grab
(07:31):
some of the fire, move down a couple hundred feet,
start a new fire line and let that burn and
follow that right until you have until you're in a
place where there's nothing burning.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What'd you call it, Shane, a backfire or a just
a burnout?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, that those are your options in a forest situation,
that's not easy. You can't, like, you're not gonna be
able to do that. And so if you can get
to a very large rock cropping or into a water
source like and even then depends on how big the
fire is, like sometimes you're just you're just gonna have
to all out run and run and run until you're
(08:08):
out of there.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Well, you know, and I have a question about that too,
because you know, what I'm seeing here is that the
best chance of survival is to evacuate in the opposite
movement of obviously of the fire, which the fire usually
goes with the wind is blown by the wind. So
so whether.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's but you can't get out of the way the fire,
depending on the size.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Of the fire, right yeah, no, yeah, yeah, absolutely, that
absolutely depends. But also fire can move so fast that
it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to get
out of the way of it, depending on the speed
of the wind and so forth as well.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So if you can, if you can get around the fire,
go into the wind around the fire. But if you can't,
then you go with the wind and try to out run it.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
As you're saying, yeah, like, it depends on that. Here's
the thing. Honestly, are you going to be caught out
in a fire of that size?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Unlikely.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You're looking for a scenario for like a zero one
percent chance of something happening. Right. The reality of what
we're going to be facing are local fires, vandalfires, house
fires like those are the things you need to worry
about more because if it's a wildfire situation, if you're
that close, you're probably the jack and ape who started it.
(09:25):
You need to understand how to take care of and
manage a campfire first, right, create a fire, break around it,
have at least ten feet minimum, and keep it a
fire small and manageable. Surround it with rocks, have water
on hand, have dirt piled up ready to go so
you can put the fire out if it becomes a
little bit unmanageable. The problem is we have so many
(09:48):
foolish people who are like bonfire and you're like, dude,
you're in the middle of a loghouse type scenario and
you're trying to do a bonfire with dead wood all
around you. Like, common sense is not so common as it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Used to be. Yep, Well, I would say probably to
a degree, because we would build fires for our survival,
for cooking and so forth. And nowadays, you know, that's
not nearly as common, and there are a lot of
you know, people use camping stoves. I prefer to use
(10:26):
a camping stove when I'm in the back country rather
than build a fire for for a lot of reason,
but one of the main ones is so I don't
create a debt for myself for the rest of my
life for a wild and fire having to put out
a fire that I created, the one out of control, right, yeah,
so so dead. Yeah, be smart. Take a stove if
(10:48):
you're gonna if you're going backpacking or whatever, use a
stove and be smart.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
And if you do have to create a campfire for
some kind, even if it's just a warmth, make sure
you do everything Scott said early or where you make
plenty of space because you don't want some spark to
crackle and all of a sudden, you know, you light
them because you have a bunch of kindling two feet
away and you're like, oh, whoops. You know, we can
prevent forest fires. That's how you do it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It's like you look like I love the sound of
a campfire, right, And we all enjoy a good campfire,
except for when the smoke follows you and you're just
stuck in it. Right, But that those popping sounds, what
are those popping sounds frequency? What causes those.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Gases expanding or sap expanding from snap.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And gases getting getting exposed. Those are the things that
usually light those embers up, that send them up into
the trees above right. So you also want to make
sure you have clearance above your fire right because things
will rise. Heat pushes things up, and so you've got
to like I've I've put out campfires from scouts so
many times. I'm like, why why are you putting a
(11:59):
fire here? Because we're coold. I'm like, yeah, but you
shouldn't be right here putting a fire. Let's talk about
why you've got a dead tree right above you. Does
that seem smart? Well, it's it's would that we could use.
I'm like yeah, and if it catches on fire, you're
all dead. Like, but yeah, I think as preppers were
a little more thoughtful of that, Especially if you've been
(12:20):
doing wilderness survival at any level, camping and backpacking any level,
you kind of understand and learn these things. But yeah,
like bigger picture house fires, bigger picture brush fires around
your house. Like if you're going to build a house,
let's build it with like fireproof materials.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, yeah, and a big part about that is as well,
as we talked a lot about bugging out, having a
bug out location, and of course it's always nice to
have have some privacy. So building your your bug out
location within it, within the forest, the in the trees,
right secluded area, which puts you at a higher risk
(13:04):
for potential forest fire and losing your entire bug out location.
So personally, I picked a location that does not have that,
that is in a very well irrigated location. So for me,
fires are very very low priority. But I also chose
materials that are not flammable for the exterior of my structures.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Especially your car.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's all metal, all metal, and the two wind walls
are a cement board.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So I'm gonna ask, like you, I love smit board.
That's so smart because and and a lot of the
homes that I see that are being built in wooded areas,
they're using those cement boards like cardiboards and the other types, right,
and and then using metal roofs roofing embers don't don't
catch and that's the way to do it. I've even
I even looked into this because I've thought about doing
(13:58):
a fire suppression company with a couple of investors I
was talking to and I'm like, there's so many other
companies doing this already. You don't need to. You can
go get fire retardant sprinkler system to put on your
home that instead of just spraying out water, it'll spray
out fire retardant mix with water. Right, So you can
you can do that and have like a normal habitat
(14:20):
all around you and have like a thirty foot sprinkler
system out around the house that goes on and shoots
out fire retardant as an additional precaution. Right, They're not cheap,
but we're just.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Building a sprinkler type system around the perimeter of your
property where there where it could be a threat that
if if something does happen, you can just turn that
on and you know you're protected.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Is match, right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, And then you could jump on the roof real
quick and get your hose up there, and you hose
down your roof so that ambers don't jump over the
sprinklers and you come up on you onto your roof
and light that up that was happening. There's a lot
of people in I was watching a lot of videos
in southern California fire that there was people with their
hose out there just making a water line, saturating there
(15:10):
as much as their property line as they could with
water to keep it from having that fire cross over that.
And that's that's all from fires coming at the home
from outside, which is you know, the reality is you
got to watch and be careful because if you're in
a wooded area or an area that's near a bunch
of dry grass, or even some fields. There was a
(15:35):
just a couple of weeks ago actually before this house
fire that kind of prompted this conversation today, there was
there was a there's a big open field about three
blocks from me, and I think, I think it's a
farmer's land and it's probably got to be alfalfa or something. Anyways,
I don't know what they're what they're making. But their
barn went up in flames and it was wild to see.
(15:55):
We could see the smoke clearly from my house, and
I drove over there to see what it was, and
it was their whole Their barn was up in smoke
and thankfully it was contained and what didn't get into
the fields. But they have I know that they water
that I drive by there regularly enough that I see them,
the big circular sprinkle sprinkler, the big the ones they
(16:17):
do on the farms. They look like wagon wheels. They're huge,
but they're like super huge and they they spray that
water out there. But so I think they were they
were had just done that, so it was really green
and fresh, so I don't think it was going to
catch fire anyways. But yeah, that's that's wild how much
your structures can light up if you're not careful.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, the old log cabins are the ones that worrying me.
The mouse or the old old stick framed cabins that
are out in the middle of the woods, like those
are gonna go up quick because most of the time
they're just they're sheeted or sheathed in plywood. Right, and
then yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Just very very to me singles or something like that, right. Yeah,
But logs by themselves are very really quite fire resistant obviously,
So if you have a log cabin with a metal roof,
then you're it's a pretty good structure and that's gonna
I even resist fire pretty well. Well. If you think
about when a fire goes through a wooded area pin
(17:16):
say pines, for example, the it burns the the branches,
the bark protects the tree itself, and the tree actually
rarely catch it on fire. There are sometimes where you'll
see a standing tree which is burning inside, right, and
they have to cut those down. But most trees in
the entire when a fire goes through the logs themselves,
(17:37):
are trees are still standing. And of course it depends
on how hot it is and how the under undergrowth
and such is. But if you've cleared that away from
your cabin and the sparks are hitting the logs themselves,
they're not gonna they're not gonna start on the fire.
I mean, think about how you build your own campfire.
You have to have your tinder, right, You've got to
have the small materials, and then you add or you
have your your yet your your tinder. Then you've got
(17:58):
your kind the kind like there you go, that's the
word I'm looking for. You're kindling. And then you know,
larger and larger pieces you add to your fire as
it grows. Obviously, was the fire comes to you, it's
gonna be very hot. But uh, but the logs themselves
do resist.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I was just thinking, like my front porch of a
log cabin would be like the kindling to the cabin,
well the front and I'm like, oh no.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, yeah, the front porch itself would probably be you
build it out of tracks or something. Well it just melt.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But yeah, like, what's this melted mess. That's my porch.
You did it last year. Okay, so let's talk about
let's talk about houses homes. House fires. Kitchen fires are
the most common.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So here's here's a perfect example of what to look for.
My son he has this He gets his food in
the morning and he'll microwave the food and then he'll
pour it into a metal thermos that's designed to keep
it warm all day. So he comes home from work
from school and he's like, hey, Dad, I want to
warm up my food. Is it okay? If I put
(19:02):
the thermos in the microwave? And I was like, no,
you can't have metal in a microwave. So I avoided
a house fire just a couple of weeks ago myself
by reminding my son that you can't microwave metal items
because that will that would be very bad, and so
that's I think one thing for sure is making sure
(19:26):
that you're microwaving the right things. And that could be
you know, a tin, a little bit of a piece
of tinfoil, any kind of metal just get in there
and can really recavoc on if you're not careful. And so,
amongst other things, I think the microwave is one of
the major culprits for those kitchen fires, would you agree.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You know, I don't know too much about about microwaves,
But one thing that does worry about me more than
that is lithium batteries. Right, there's so many people that
have electric bikes and scooters and hoverboards or what caused
a problem for or, you know, quite a few years
as these hoverboards coming in from China that would be
(20:04):
plugged in someone's house and their low quality and the
charger malfunctions or something, and it's the lithium battery starts
on fire within the house or the garage, and you
just you can't put those out, you know, And so
I think special provisions, And of course that seems to
(20:26):
be more rare now with the higher quality devices, the
higher quality products, but I still am very wary. You know,
that's one reason of the many reasons I won't have
electric car, have all those lithium batteries in my garage
under my roof when something you know, and those that
can happen. So that's for me, that's a much bigger concern,
(20:49):
the lithium batteries than microwaves or so.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I was just thinking of of electrical fires from bad
circuitry and fires in your kitchen and from not paying
attention to what you're cooking.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Well, grease fires in particular.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Grease fires in particular, like I've heard and seen a
lot less of those lately. But growing up, oh so
and so's kitchens on fire, So and so lost their kitchen.
Oh so and so I had to move out of
their house because of their kitchen fire. Like it was
always kitchen fire, kitchen fire, kitchen fire. I think we
hear a lot less of that because now there's door dash, right,
So if your door dash is on fire, don't don't
(21:26):
let them in. But I think less and less people,
you're right, less and less people are cooking. But lithium
batteries are big, big problem. Don't put your phones in
bed with you, Well, you're charging them for sure, get
them out of the out of the bedroom. Mm hm
like but yeah, like I remember when all those coverboards
(21:46):
are on litting lighting up all over the news and
as much, but other stuff is always lighting up.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'm also thinking that we're headed into Christmas season soon,
and one of the things I think everybody should just
keep as a reminder is to make sure your Christmas
tree is not you know, we get Christmas lights and
we plug you know, you plug in the plug, you
plug the one in the plug and on the plug,
and the other plug and the other plug. And I've
seen some of these Christmas lights where the tree lights
(22:17):
where it's like five plugs all plugged into the same thing.
And so just be careful with those types of things
as well as you're headed into that into the holidays,
because there's a lot. I don't know how common it is,
but it just seems like that's one thing that also
lights up can cause fires in the home, is all
of the you're plugging in too many things into the
(22:37):
same outlet, or you've got too many strands of Christmas
lights going into the same outlet.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I found an article here about microwaves and fires just
scanning through it. It seems like the biggest issue is
over over cooking, packaging and so forth, and running a
microwave for too long and then catch a fire. And
then I'd give some other reasons here, but you know,
I'm just glancing through this at the moment.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
But so I got one of those what are the
you know those a rice bag for example, where you
want to warm up a rice bag to kind of
put on your muscles or whatever. I had bought one
of those because I had a sty I had an eye,
a stye in my eye, and there was this pouch
you could buy at the store that you could buy
and you heat it up and you put it on
(23:27):
your eye, and the warmth kind of helped you dissolve
the stye and you can eventually heels yourself. So one time,
I remember my wife was like, I didn't. My wife
had followed read the instructions and throws them away and
then she puts it in the microwave and she brings
it to me, and so I'm like, all I thank you,
and she's like, oh, yeah, I just put in the microwave.
I'm like, all right, cool. So I figure you don't
put in the microwave for you know whatever twenty seconds
or whatever you're supposed to put in like five seconds,
(23:51):
like this thing, the thing blows up. It like starts juicing.
All the the plastic starts to melt. I totally ruined it,
and there was smoke coming out. I open up the
microwave and their smoke coming out of it, and I'm
just like, what did I do? And she's like, you're
only supposed to cook it in there for a few seconds.
I'm like, I put it in there for like twenty
So obviously you want to make sure you're not putting
(24:12):
in for That's a good point, Shane. And don't overcook things,
even if it's not food. You don't want to overcook
those rice bags or anything else that you might put
in there just to warm up, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So, Shane, you're saying the number one cause of kitchen
fires are negligence, Right, we need to be more aware
of what we're doing. But yeah, it's funny too.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I think if you have little kids, another thing you
want to make sure that you do is you want
to make sure that, especially if you're cooking something that's greasy,
make sure the handle is turned away from the big
so it's not hanging over the edge of the stove,
because you don't want your little child to walk up
there and say, oh, look, what's this handle and they
grab it and it flips over on top of them
and the grease fire gets all over the floor and
you're now you've got a whole problem, not just a
(25:02):
damaged child, but you also have now the deal with
repairing the flooring and whatever the fire might do. So
make sure you're doing thing taking precautions like that to
make sure that your your handles are turned away so
little kids can't grab them as they're walking by and
tempted to grab them. So that's another thing I was
going to say before you So what were you going
to say, Scott? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So I was going to say, there's two things that
are great to have. Number one is fire extinguishers, right,
and number two are fire blankets fire retardant blankets. I
just shared one in our Facebook group Emergency Prep and
Sell for Reliance, so you just can see what I'm
talking about. But they're they're great to have, especially for
cooking fires, right, grease fires and stuff like that. It
(25:44):
cuts the eck, cuts the oxygen out, stops the fire
as quick as can. It's pretty safe. You just toss
it over the fire boom. But having a good plan
requires having good tools. And the other thing to note
is make sure that your extinguishers are up to date
because they will expire, and those ones are the ones
(26:06):
you don't want to risk. Expired fire extinguishers is big
a deal, right because the cans lie, they tell you
the wrong date. But if an extinguisher those dates don't lie,
you can take them. There's a lot of different places
like here in Utah you can, and you can do
this anywhere wherever you live. Just hop on Google and
(26:26):
look for a refill station for your fire extinguisher and
they can look to see if it can be refilled,
or if it can't be refilled, they can sell you
a new one that can.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
That reminds me when I don't know if you guys remember,
but a couple of week months ago, I don't know
if it was twenty or thirty episodes ago, but I
shared that I had almost burned on my house down
because I was barbecuing in the back and I didn't
I hadn't cleaned my barbecue and so I was barbecuing
and my son was like, hey, Dad, is there supposed
to be flames coming out of the barbecue like that?
I'm like, what do you mean? So I run over there.
(27:00):
Sure enough, I was able to save my chicken at least,
and so I got it off the grill really fast
with the tongs. And then I see this and it
starts flaming. I'm like, okay, let me see if it
just dies down. I turned off all the propane and everything.
It wasn't dying down because it was now caught on
all the grease that had built up in the bottom
of the thing. And so I was like, I need
my fire extinguisher. So I went and grabbed my fire
(27:21):
extinguisher and put it out, and thankfully I was able
to save it from getting any worse. But boy, that
was a that was kind of a I'm glad I
had my fire extinguisher.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Available, and don't cook near the house.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, my barbecue is right up against the house on
my back forth, maybe.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
In mind to be able to wheel that away yep,
from the house. First step before you go grab your
fire extinguisher, right, So that has happened to me before
as well, But it was not my barbecue. Well, so
I cannot be blamed for that. But you know, one
of my biggest concerns you know I've mentioned is is
that fire will be used as a weapon in SHTF,
(28:01):
right when there's no emergency services around that we can call,
say where you're you're bugged in, you're staying, you're you're
staying at home, you're not bugging out, right, and that's
gonna be most people. How can fire be used against
you in that situation? And what can you do to
prepare yourself to minimize you know, that being impossibility? And
(28:26):
then then do you have the right tools like you're saying,
it's got to fight that fire? Because uh, I found
some pretty cool tools and I'm actually going to order
and and have on hand. One in particular is a
wildland fire water tank. So you put on your back,
it's got a pump and you fill it up and
go around and put out the hotspots. So so I
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mean that's very minimal, right. I think it'd be better
to have a water tank with a water pump attached
to it, and you know, have that plan is you know,
I have a couple of water tanks and it's for drinking, right,
I don't want to use it for drinking. But if
I don't have a house to live in, right then
what goods the water? So have a a water pump
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standing by to where you can hook that up quickly
to have some kind of a plan and a hose
and you know, realistically, that's it might take a little
while to set that up and connect that and get
your get the fire put out. So it's going to
take some planning and some forethought, you know, if that's
really a concern.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And the reality of arson is actually pretty big. Look
at what happened in California. Yeah, there were arsens all
over the place feeding those fires, making it worse, expanding.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
And what happened during the riots They would throw molotov
cocktails and those fires would start up. That there was
police cars being burned, there were shops being burned. So
it was the reality of molotov cocktails being used as
a weapon against you in shd have to kind of
to smoke you out, so to speak. Is real. That's
that's legit, Shane, Thanks for bringing that up, I think,
(30:03):
you know. Just in closing, some of my final thoughts are,
if you the old traditional check to make sure the door,
you know, check with your back of your hand to
make sure the door's hot. If you have a fire
in your house and you're trying to get out safely,
make sure you check the handles with your back of
your hand so you're not going to burn your hands,
just to see what's hot, check the door, and then
(30:24):
just crawl. Stay low, and when your house is on fire,
you need to stay low where the oxygen still is
there and do your best. To teach your kids that
do I would do like a drills with your kids.
If there's ever a house fire and you've got kids
in the basement, show them, teach them ways to open
up the window and climb out through the window well,
or if they're in a top story. There's some really
(30:44):
good I've seen some really cool like geared where if
you're in a multi story building, you can actually hook
the thing up and it's it hooks in and then
you just you jump out the window and like there's
like this gyro thing that kind of slowly gets you
down to the ground. So there's some really neat and
then there's the ones where you can slide through. You know,
(31:05):
that's a slide opens up on your window. So if
you're living on a multi story apartment complex. You're going
to want to have some escape routes of your own,
probably in case the escape routes that are built into
the building are blocked off. So those are just some
final thoughts as I'm thinking about ways to prepare, and
I think running skills, running drills to teach your kids,
the safe ways to get out of the house, safe
(31:25):
ways to get to this, to a safe spot, create
a safe spot in the front yard, backyard, wherever's appropriate,
so that you know, hey, is everybody here, Oh, shoot,
where's little Johnny or where's little Susie. We got to
go back in and get them, find out where they are.
And so if you can do that, but otherwise wait
for the you know, a parent is going to go
running into the fire to save their kid. I don't.
(31:46):
I'm pretty sure that any good parents going to do that.
I would, But if you can wait for the you know,
if there's nobody in the house, don't worry about stuff,
save people and let the firefighters fix fix everything, and
don't worry about stuff. Stuff can be place people can't.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
So my final thought would just be this, everything you
guys have said, agree do, but also please, please, if
you have a dryer. Please clean out your dryer event
to your outside. Twenty nine one hundred fires a year
in the US alone from that, so please please please
(32:23):
clear that clean that out.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And I would I would say maybe even more likely
than a home fire is a fire in your vehicle
or someone else's vehicle. So keep fire extinguishers, of course
in your home and multiple locations fire blankets. I also
keep a fire blanket and extinguisher specific for automotive fires
in my vehicle as well, so I can be of
(32:47):
assistance to someone else in a car accident. Right, that's
fairly likely. We talk about having medical supplies, emergency blanket
for a car an accident, but what about an automotive
fire extinguisher as well?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
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how you guys doing. How's how you been since we
did the last episode and number one number two, let's
jump into fire preparedness.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, I could complain, but you know nobody listens, so
no use in complaining, So I don't usually complain. So
I'm just just and I probably say this way too often.
I'm just it's just crazy out there, It's insane. You know,
I'm a broken record when it comes to how things
are like out there, so I won't go TV too
(02:25):
far into that. Scott, Well, we'll.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Have to talk about that next episode with Yes. The
Crazy of September, Holy smokes man, September what a month.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, I've been good. I actually went hiking with with
one of one of the minions this weekend. It was
a lot of fun. We talked. Actually, it was good
because we actually talked about fire safety on the trail,
identifying that there's a lot of fire hazards where we were.
I'm like, wow, they have not cleared anything here. It
is exceedingly dangerous. If a fire ups where we were,
(02:58):
I'm like, it is not good. So that's one of
the things we've got to talk about. So let's shall
we dive into it, because there's there's so many things.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I think. This topic was something that I brought up
because in my local town, uh it's in Utah, one
of the there was a huge house fire and it
was all over our local news because it's something that's
so crazy and it's really not something we have very often.
But this family was devastated, obviously, and they were asking
for help and donations and other things, and so I thought,
(03:30):
you know what, maybe we ought to do an episode
on fire preparedness, like another one of those how tos.
We haven't done a how to prepare for whatever insert
natural disaster, insert whatever in a while. So I was like,
let's what do you think, guys, And they said, yeah,
let's let's talk about it. So, I mean, when you
have a house house fire is probably you know, when
it comes to a fire, that's probably going to be
(03:50):
more off, more common in terms of what we'll encounter.
But you know, definitely if you're out hiking or running,
there's so many fires now in the in the forests,
in the the in the the dry grass that we
need to prepare to be ready for that too.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I think, like Scott was saying, is number one is awareness,
Right your kids have my kids, you know, I have
really no idea what the dangers are when they're out
out hiking, for example, And I mean that's a perfect,
perfectly great example, your hike along. You see how dry
it is. That's that's some danger that should set up
(04:27):
a little warning flag and say, oh we need to
be very careful. Uh, of course, depending on where you
are in the train and so forth. But I mean
also around your home and and the situation you find
yourself in. Is that awareness and also awareness you know
post collapse in the in armageddon and such. So that's
kind of where my thoughts go is how do we
(04:48):
uh prevent? How do we prepare? How do we put
out fires post collapse when we're doing it ourselves, when
there's no one to call, right when we're only relying
on our community.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Well, well, I know for sure with brush fires, and
I always I think it's cool. I mean, I okay,
let me let me qualify this. It's not cool that
a fire is happening. But I always enjoy watching these
farmers clear or break make a fire break when there
when there's a huge fire crumbling across their field. They
(05:24):
run the tractor and they make a fire break so
that it won't that it stops the fire. And so
I was thinking about, you know, when you if you're
out in the woods or something like that, you got
to create a fire break of some kind. Usually if
you're out in the open like that, you're not going
to just by yourself. It's going to be really hard,
I think, to do. But you know, one thing that
you can do is if you've got Well, if you're
(05:46):
if you're hiking in the wilderness and there's a huge
fire coming after you, I don't think you're going to
stop it. I don't think you're gonna have a fire break.
I think that at that point you just got to
run as fast as you can. Now, Now, what's the
what is the rule of thumb? When you have a
fear in the wilderness, you're maybe on a mountaintop or
on a slope, do you run up or do you
run down? I can't remember there was I can't. I
(06:07):
think there was something that he told me. You run,
you run a certain direction because the fire is going
to naturally go the other direction. Do you guys remember
what that is? Am I making that up? Or Well?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Fire does like to burn vertically, right, we know that.
But it chases, It chases where one the wind's pushing it.
It chases flammable resources. It's hungry, right, it's eating. It's
always looking for fuel. So wherever the fuel is is
where it's going to go. It doesn't care up or down.
My brother used to be well lane firefighter. And the
(06:39):
thing is is, it's like, if the wind's blowing, you
need to be going the same direction the wind is
blowing to get away from the fire, right you go
away from the fire and away from and where to
the wind is going and off off the path right
out of the way of where the fire and where
the fuel is. Have you ever, guys, have you guys
ever watched did you go crazy?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Let me clarify what you just said, Scott, do you
go into the wind so.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
That or you go down with the wind?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You go with me, so you go down the way? Okay,
down wind?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Like you want to get with the wind and until
you're out of the wind and out of the fire,
right you're The problem is, though, like depending on where
you are and what conditions are, like, there's a bunch
of different things. Like if you're in the planes, right,
here's the thing. If you're in the planes and there's
brush fire, the smartest thing to do is to burn
a new fire line, right to let put the grab
(07:31):
some of the fire, move down a couple hundred feet,
start a new fire line and let that burn and
follow that right until you have until you're in a
place where there's nothing burning.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What'd you call it, Shane, a backfire or a just
a burnout?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, that those are your options in a forest situation,
that's not easy. You can't, like, you're not gonna be
able to do that. And so if you can get
to a very large rock cropping or into a water
source like and even then depends on how big the
fire is, like sometimes you're just you're just gonna have
to all out run and run and run until you're
(08:08):
out of there.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Well, you know, and I have a question about that too,
because you know, what I'm seeing here is that the
best chance of survival is to evacuate in the opposite
movement of obviously of the fire, which the fire usually
goes with the wind is blown by the wind. So
so whether.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's but you can't get out of the way the fire,
depending on the size.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Of the fire, right yeah, no, yeah, yeah, absolutely, that
absolutely depends. But also fire can move so fast that
it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to get
out of the way of it, depending on the speed
of the wind and so forth as well.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So if you can, if you can get around the fire,
go into the wind around the fire. But if you can't,
then you go with the wind and try to out run it.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
As you're saying, yeah, like, it depends on that. Here's
the thing. Honestly, are you going to be caught out
in a fire of that size?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Unlikely.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You're looking for a scenario for like a zero one
percent chance of something happening. Right. The reality of what
we're going to be facing are local fires, vandalfires, house
fires like those are the things you need to worry
about more because if it's a wildfire situation, if you're
that close, you're probably the jack and ape who started it.
(09:25):
You need to understand how to take care of and
manage a campfire first, right, create a fire, break around it,
have at least ten feet minimum, and keep it a
fire small and manageable. Surround it with rocks, have water
on hand, have dirt piled up ready to go so
you can put the fire out if it becomes a
little bit unmanageable. The problem is we have so many
(09:48):
foolish people who are like bonfire and you're like, dude,
you're in the middle of a loghouse type scenario and
you're trying to do a bonfire with dead wood all
around you. Like, common sense is not so common as it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Used to be. Yep, Well, I would say probably to
a degree, because we would build fires for our survival,
for cooking and so forth. And nowadays, you know, that's
not nearly as common, and there are a lot of
you know, people use camping stoves. I prefer to use
(10:26):
a camping stove when I'm in the back country rather
than build a fire for for a lot of reason,
but one of the main ones is so I don't
create a debt for myself for the rest of my
life for a wild and fire having to put out
a fire that I created, the one out of control, right, yeah,
so so dead. Yeah, be smart. Take a stove if
(10:48):
you're gonna if you're going backpacking or whatever, use a
stove and be smart.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
And if you do have to create a campfire for
some kind, even if it's just a warmth, make sure
you do everything Scott said early or where you make
plenty of space because you don't want some spark to
crackle and all of a sudden, you know, you light
them because you have a bunch of kindling two feet
away and you're like, oh, whoops. You know, we can
prevent forest fires. That's how you do it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It's like you look like I love the sound of
a campfire, right, And we all enjoy a good campfire,
except for when the smoke follows you and you're just
stuck in it. Right, But that those popping sounds, what
are those popping sounds frequency? What causes those.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Gases expanding or sap expanding from snap.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And gases getting getting exposed. Those are the things that
usually light those embers up, that send them up into
the trees above right. So you also want to make
sure you have clearance above your fire right because things
will rise. Heat pushes things up, and so you've got
to like I've I've put out campfires from scouts so
many times. I'm like, why why are you putting a
(11:59):
fire here? Because we're coold. I'm like, yeah, but you
shouldn't be right here putting a fire. Let's talk about
why you've got a dead tree right above you. Does
that seem smart? Well, it's it's would that we could use.
I'm like yeah, and if it catches on fire, you're
all dead. Like, but yeah, I think as preppers were
a little more thoughtful of that, Especially if you've been
(12:20):
doing wilderness survival at any level, camping and backpacking any level,
you kind of understand and learn these things. But yeah,
like bigger picture house fires, bigger picture brush fires around
your house. Like if you're going to build a house,
let's build it with like fireproof materials.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, yeah, and a big part about that is as well,
as we talked a lot about bugging out, having a
bug out location, and of course it's always nice to
have have some privacy. So building your your bug out
location within it, within the forest, the in the trees,
right secluded area, which puts you at a higher risk
(13:04):
for potential forest fire and losing your entire bug out location.
So personally, I picked a location that does not have that,
that is in a very well irrigated location. So for me,
fires are very very low priority. But I also chose
materials that are not flammable for the exterior of my structures.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Especially your car.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's all metal, all metal, and the two wind walls
are a cement board.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So I'm gonna ask, like you, I love smit board.
That's so smart because and and a lot of the
homes that I see that are being built in wooded areas,
they're using those cement boards like cardiboards and the other types, right,
and and then using metal roofs roofing embers don't don't
catch and that's the way to do it. I've even
I even looked into this because I've thought about doing
(13:58):
a fire suppression company with a couple of investors I
was talking to and I'm like, there's so many other
companies doing this already. You don't need to. You can
go get fire retardant sprinkler system to put on your
home that instead of just spraying out water, it'll spray
out fire retardant mix with water. Right, So you can
you can do that and have like a normal habitat
(14:20):
all around you and have like a thirty foot sprinkler
system out around the house that goes on and shoots
out fire retardant as an additional precaution. Right, They're not cheap,
but we're just.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Building a sprinkler type system around the perimeter of your
property where there where it could be a threat that
if if something does happen, you can just turn that
on and you know you're protected.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Is match, right?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, And then you could jump on the roof real
quick and get your hose up there, and you hose
down your roof so that ambers don't jump over the
sprinklers and you come up on you onto your roof
and light that up that was happening. There's a lot
of people in I was watching a lot of videos
in southern California fire that there was people with their
hose out there just making a water line, saturating there
(15:10):
as much as their property line as they could with
water to keep it from having that fire cross over that.
And that's that's all from fires coming at the home
from outside, which is you know, the reality is you
got to watch and be careful because if you're in
a wooded area or an area that's near a bunch
of dry grass, or even some fields. There was a
(15:35):
just a couple of weeks ago actually before this house
fire that kind of prompted this conversation today, there was
there was a there's a big open field about three
blocks from me, and I think, I think it's a
farmer's land and it's probably got to be alfalfa or something. Anyways,
I don't know what they're what they're making. But their
barn went up in flames and it was wild to see.
(15:55):
We could see the smoke clearly from my house, and
I drove over there to see what it was, and
it was their whole Their barn was up in smoke
and thankfully it was contained and what didn't get into
the fields. But they have I know that they water
that I drive by there regularly enough that I see them,
the big circular sprinkle sprinkler, the big the ones they
(16:17):
do on the farms. They look like wagon wheels. They're huge,
but they're like super huge and they they spray that
water out there. But so I think they were they
were had just done that, so it was really green
and fresh, so I don't think it was going to
catch fire anyways. But yeah, that's that's wild how much
your structures can light up if you're not careful.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, the old log cabins are the ones that worrying me.
The mouse or the old old stick framed cabins that
are out in the middle of the woods, like those
are gonna go up quick because most of the time
they're just they're sheeted or sheathed in plywood. Right, and
then yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Just very very to me singles or something like that, right. Yeah,
But logs by themselves are very really quite fire resistant obviously,
So if you have a log cabin with a metal roof,
then you're it's a pretty good structure and that's gonna
I even resist fire pretty well. Well. If you think
about when a fire goes through a wooded area pin
(17:16):
say pines, for example, the it burns the the branches,
the bark protects the tree itself, and the tree actually
rarely catch it on fire. There are sometimes where you'll
see a standing tree which is burning inside, right, and
they have to cut those down. But most trees in
the entire when a fire goes through the logs themselves,
(17:37):
are trees are still standing. And of course it depends
on how hot it is and how the under undergrowth
and such is. But if you've cleared that away from
your cabin and the sparks are hitting the logs themselves,
they're not gonna they're not gonna start on the fire.
I mean, think about how you build your own campfire.
You have to have your tinder, right, You've got to
have the small materials, and then you add or you
have your your yet your your tinder. Then you've got
(17:58):
your kind the kind like there you go, that's the
word I'm looking for. You're kindling. And then you know,
larger and larger pieces you add to your fire as
it grows. Obviously, was the fire comes to you, it's
gonna be very hot. But uh, but the logs themselves
do resist.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I was just thinking, like my front porch of a
log cabin would be like the kindling to the cabin,
well the front and I'm like, oh no.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, yeah, the front porch itself would probably be you
build it out of tracks or something. Well it just melt.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But yeah, like, what's this melted mess. That's my porch.
You did it last year. Okay, so let's talk about
let's talk about houses homes. House fires. Kitchen fires are
the most common.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So here's here's a perfect example of what to look for.
My son he has this He gets his food in
the morning and he'll microwave the food and then he'll
pour it into a metal thermos that's designed to keep
it warm all day. So he comes home from work
from school and he's like, hey, Dad, I want to
warm up my food. Is it okay? If I put
(19:02):
the thermos in the microwave? And I was like, no,
you can't have metal in a microwave. So I avoided
a house fire just a couple of weeks ago myself
by reminding my son that you can't microwave metal items
because that will that would be very bad, and so
that's I think one thing for sure is making sure
(19:26):
that you're microwaving the right things. And that could be
you know, a tin, a little bit of a piece
of tinfoil, any kind of metal just get in there
and can really recavoc on if you're not careful. And so,
amongst other things, I think the microwave is one of
the major culprits for those kitchen fires, would you agree.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You know, I don't know too much about about microwaves,
But one thing that does worry about me more than
that is lithium batteries. Right, there's so many people that
have electric bikes and scooters and hoverboards or what caused
a problem for or, you know, quite a few years
as these hoverboards coming in from China that would be
(20:04):
plugged in someone's house and their low quality and the
charger malfunctions or something, and it's the lithium battery starts
on fire within the house or the garage, and you
just you can't put those out, you know, And so
I think special provisions, And of course that seems to
(20:26):
be more rare now with the higher quality devices, the
higher quality products, but I still am very wary. You know,
that's one reason of the many reasons I won't have
electric car, have all those lithium batteries in my garage
under my roof when something you know, and those that
can happen. So that's for me, that's a much bigger concern,
(20:49):
the lithium batteries than microwaves or so.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I was just thinking of of electrical fires from bad
circuitry and fires in your kitchen and from not paying
attention to what you're cooking.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Well, grease fires in particular.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Grease fires in particular, like I've heard and seen a
lot less of those lately. But growing up, oh so
and so's kitchens on fire, So and so lost their kitchen.
Oh so and so I had to move out of
their house because of their kitchen fire. Like it was
always kitchen fire, kitchen fire, kitchen fire. I think we
hear a lot less of that because now there's door dash, right,
So if your door dash is on fire, don't don't
(21:26):
let them in. But I think less and less people,
you're right, less and less people are cooking. But lithium
batteries are big, big problem. Don't put your phones in
bed with you, Well, you're charging them for sure, get
them out of the out of the bedroom. Mm hm
like but yeah, like I remember when all those coverboards
(21:46):
are on litting lighting up all over the news and
as much, but other stuff is always lighting up.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I'm also thinking that we're headed into Christmas season soon,
and one of the things I think everybody should just
keep as a reminder is to make sure your Christmas
tree is not you know, we get Christmas lights and
we plug you know, you plug in the plug, you
plug the one in the plug and on the plug,
and the other plug and the other plug. And I've
seen some of these Christmas lights where the tree lights
(22:17):
where it's like five plugs all plugged into the same thing.
And so just be careful with those types of things
as well as you're headed into that into the holidays,
because there's a lot. I don't know how common it is,
but it just seems like that's one thing that also
lights up can cause fires in the home, is all
of the you're plugging in too many things into the
(22:37):
same outlet, or you've got too many strands of Christmas
lights going into the same outlet.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I found an article here about microwaves and fires just
scanning through it. It seems like the biggest issue is
over over cooking, packaging and so forth, and running a
microwave for too long and then catch a fire. And
then I'd give some other reasons here, but you know,
I'm just glancing through this at the moment.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
But so I got one of those what are the
you know those a rice bag for example, where you
want to warm up a rice bag to kind of
put on your muscles or whatever. I had bought one
of those because I had a sty I had an eye,
a stye in my eye, and there was this pouch
you could buy at the store that you could buy
and you heat it up and you put it on
(23:27):
your eye, and the warmth kind of helped you dissolve
the stye and you can eventually heels yourself. So one time,
I remember my wife was like, I didn't. My wife
had followed read the instructions and throws them away and
then she puts it in the microwave and she brings
it to me, and so I'm like, all I thank you,
and she's like, oh, yeah, I just put in the microwave.
I'm like, all right, cool. So I figure you don't
put in the microwave for you know whatever twenty seconds
or whatever you're supposed to put in like five seconds,
(23:51):
like this thing, the thing blows up. It like starts juicing.
All the the plastic starts to melt. I totally ruined it,
and there was smoke coming out. I open up the
microwave and their smoke coming out of it, and I'm
just like, what did I do? And she's like, you're
only supposed to cook it in there for a few seconds.
I'm like, I put it in there for like twenty
So obviously you want to make sure you're not putting
(24:12):
in for That's a good point, Shane. And don't overcook things,
even if it's not food. You don't want to overcook
those rice bags or anything else that you might put
in there just to warm up, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So, Shane, you're saying the number one cause of kitchen
fires are negligence, Right, we need to be more aware
of what we're doing. But yeah, it's funny too.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I think if you have little kids, another thing you
want to make sure that you do is you want
to make sure that, especially if you're cooking something that's greasy,
make sure the handle is turned away from the big
so it's not hanging over the edge of the stove,
because you don't want your little child to walk up
there and say, oh, look, what's this handle and they
grab it and it flips over on top of them
and the grease fire gets all over the floor and
you're now you've got a whole problem, not just a
(25:02):
damaged child, but you also have now the deal with
repairing the flooring and whatever the fire might do. So
make sure you're doing thing taking precautions like that to
make sure that your your handles are turned away so
little kids can't grab them as they're walking by and
tempted to grab them. So that's another thing I was
going to say before you So what were you going
to say, Scott? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So I was going to say, there's two things that
are great to have. Number one is fire extinguishers, right,
and number two are fire blankets fire retardant blankets. I
just shared one in our Facebook group Emergency Prep and
Sell for Reliance, so you just can see what I'm
talking about. But they're they're great to have, especially for
cooking fires, right, grease fires and stuff like that. It
(25:44):
cuts the eck, cuts the oxygen out, stops the fire
as quick as can. It's pretty safe. You just toss
it over the fire boom. But having a good plan
requires having good tools. And the other thing to note
is make sure that your extinguishers are up to date
because they will expire, and those ones are the ones
(26:06):
you don't want to risk. Expired fire extinguishers is big
a deal, right because the cans lie, they tell you
the wrong date. But if an extinguisher those dates don't lie,
you can take them. There's a lot of different places
like here in Utah you can, and you can do
this anywhere wherever you live. Just hop on Google and
(26:26):
look for a refill station for your fire extinguisher and
they can look to see if it can be refilled,
or if it can't be refilled, they can sell you
a new one that can.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
That reminds me when I don't know if you guys remember,
but a couple of week months ago, I don't know
if it was twenty or thirty episodes ago, but I
shared that I had almost burned on my house down
because I was barbecuing in the back and I didn't
I hadn't cleaned my barbecue and so I was barbecuing
and my son was like, hey, Dad, is there supposed
to be flames coming out of the barbecue like that?
I'm like, what do you mean? So I run over there.
(27:00):
Sure enough, I was able to save my chicken at least,
and so I got it off the grill really fast
with the tongs. And then I see this and it
starts flaming. I'm like, okay, let me see if it
just dies down. I turned off all the propane and everything.
It wasn't dying down because it was now caught on
all the grease that had built up in the bottom
of the thing. And so I was like, I need
my fire extinguisher. So I went and grabbed my fire
(27:21):
extinguisher and put it out, and thankfully I was able
to save it from getting any worse. But boy, that
was a that was kind of a I'm glad I
had my fire extinguisher.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Available, and don't cook near the house.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, my barbecue is right up against the house on
my back forth, maybe.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
In mind to be able to wheel that away yep,
from the house. First step before you go grab your
fire extinguisher, right, So that has happened to me before
as well, But it was not my barbecue. Well, so
I cannot be blamed for that. But you know, one
of my biggest concerns you know I've mentioned is is
that fire will be used as a weapon in SHTF,
(28:01):
right when there's no emergency services around that we can call,
say where you're you're bugged in, you're staying, you're you're
staying at home, you're not bugging out, right, and that's
gonna be most people. How can fire be used against
you in that situation? And what can you do to
prepare yourself to minimize you know, that being impossibility? And
(28:26):
then then do you have the right tools like you're saying,
it's got to fight that fire? Because uh, I found
some pretty cool tools and I'm actually going to order
and and have on hand. One in particular is a
wildland fire water tank. So you put on your back,
it's got a pump and you fill it up and
go around and put out the hotspots. So so I
(28:48):
mean that's very minimal, right. I think it'd be better
to have a water tank with a water pump attached
to it, and you know, have that plan is you know,
I have a couple of water tanks and it's for drinking, right,
I don't want to use it for drinking. But if
I don't have a house to live in, right then
what goods the water? So have a a water pump
(29:09):
standing by to where you can hook that up quickly
to have some kind of a plan and a hose
and you know, realistically, that's it might take a little
while to set that up and connect that and get
your get the fire put out. So it's going to
take some planning and some forethought, you know, if that's
really a concern.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And the reality of arson is actually pretty big. Look
at what happened in California. Yeah, there were arsens all
over the place feeding those fires, making it worse, expanding.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
And what happened during the riots They would throw molotov
cocktails and those fires would start up. That there was
police cars being burned, there were shops being burned. So
it was the reality of molotov cocktails being used as
a weapon against you in shd have to kind of
to smoke you out, so to speak. Is real. That's
that's legit, Shane, Thanks for bringing that up, I think,
(30:03):
you know. Just in closing, some of my final thoughts are,
if you the old traditional check to make sure the door,
you know, check with your back of your hand to
make sure the door's hot. If you have a fire
in your house and you're trying to get out safely,
make sure you check the handles with your back of
your hand so you're not going to burn your hands,
just to see what's hot, check the door, and then
(30:24):
just crawl. Stay low, and when your house is on fire,
you need to stay low where the oxygen still is
there and do your best. To teach your kids that
do I would do like a drills with your kids.
If there's ever a house fire and you've got kids
in the basement, show them, teach them ways to open
up the window and climb out through the window well,
or if they're in a top story. There's some really
(30:44):
good I've seen some really cool like geared where if
you're in a multi story building, you can actually hook
the thing up and it's it hooks in and then
you just you jump out the window and like there's
like this gyro thing that kind of slowly gets you
down to the ground. So there's some really neat and
then there's the ones where you can slide through. You know,
(31:05):
that's a slide opens up on your window. So if
you're living on a multi story apartment complex. You're going
to want to have some escape routes of your own,
probably in case the escape routes that are built into
the building are blocked off. So those are just some
final thoughts as I'm thinking about ways to prepare, and
I think running skills, running drills to teach your kids,
the safe ways to get out of the house, safe
(31:25):
ways to get to this, to a safe spot, create
a safe spot in the front yard, backyard, wherever's appropriate,
so that you know, hey, is everybody here, Oh, shoot,
where's little Johnny or where's little Susie. We got to
go back in and get them, find out where they are.
And so if you can do that, but otherwise wait
for the you know, a parent is going to go
running into the fire to save their kid. I don't.
(31:46):
I'm pretty sure that any good parents going to do that.
I would, But if you can wait for the you know,
if there's nobody in the house, don't worry about stuff,
save people and let the firefighters fix fix everything, and
don't worry about stuff. Stuff can be place people can't.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
So my final thought would just be this, everything you
guys have said, agree do, but also please, please, if
you have a dryer. Please clean out your dryer event
to your outside. Twenty nine one hundred fires a year
in the US alone from that, so please please please
(32:23):
clear that clean that out.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
And I would I would say maybe even more likely
than a home fire is a fire in your vehicle
or someone else's vehicle. So keep fire extinguishers, of course
in your home and multiple locations fire blankets. I also
keep a fire blanket and extinguisher specific for automotive fires
in my vehicle as well, so I can be of
(32:47):
assistance to someone else in a car accident. Right, that's
fairly likely. We talk about having medical supplies, emergency blanket
for a car an accident, but what about an automotive
fire extinguisher as well?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
So very good point. All right, guys, thank you so
much for listening. You've been listening to Pepper Talk Radio
Radio for the Ready Minded, where we've talked to you
about how to prepare for, be ready for, be vigilant
and aware of our surroundings regarding fires and fire. Is
fire is wonderful. If it's used in the right way,
it can be completely wonderful. Get warmth, shelter, cooking. If
(33:26):
it's out of control, it's very dangerous, so just be
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(33:48):
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(34:09):
and we'll see you on the next one. Thank you
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