Funny you should mention that... I was getting a bathtowel wet when the=20
neighbor came running with a fire extinguisher.  My SO had yelled "Karen=20
(a neighbor) I need a fire extinguisher RIGHT NOW!" and a (different)=20
neighbor who overheard came running with one.  :)

So I didn't get to try the towel.  Only have pics of the aftermath.=20
Flames were coming up out the back of the oven, getting ready to ignite=20
the kitchen wall.

Lesson: using the broiler in a gas oven Not A Good Idea for bacon.  Open=20
flame, meet spattering highly combustible bits of fat... fwoosh.

Lesson#2: fire extinguisher under sink now.

J


William Westfield wrote:
>> Fire! Fire!
>
> Our last kitchen fire (cookie sheet full of bacon in the oven), I
> found a wet dishtowel to be particularly effective.  Wet/cooling,
> smothering, AND splatter preventing.
>
> BillW
>
>
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