Russell,
     Wow! You were extremely fortunate. It is a good thing that there=20
wasn't any oil involved. Throwing water on an oil fire can make it=20
explode and then flash over. The nearby combustibles will ignite=20
including you. I'm glad that no one was hurt and it sounds like the=20
damage is mostly superficial.
Thanks,
rich!

On 4/1/2015 3:10 PM, RussellMc wrote:
> In office. Door closed.
> Hear yelling from several rooms away.
> Then closer.
> Sounds exited :-).
> Get up
> Fire! Fire!. Russell !!!....
> Sounds as if she thinks I've been ignoring her.
> Grab camera, head for kitchen or wherever.
> Nice little blaze on far end of stove.
> Along most of depth of left edge.
> Decent little conflagration.
> Induction cooker sitting on stove top, with power on, had had stove-top
> element under it turned on :-).
> I missed the 'explosion' that reportedly occurred - perhaps as it shorted
> the mains input to the induction cooker.
> No fuses blown.
> Grab one of the 3 dry powder extinguishers from repository by stove.
> Recall the mess it made when I shot myself in the face with one some week=
s
> ago - stupidly designed trigger guard had come off and I was rummaging
> amongst some stuff and ...)
> Discard extinguisher.
> Fill cup with water at cold tap. Set 2nd filling.
> Hie to conflagration.
>

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