First Alert Fire Extinguisher, Standard Home Use

just what I needed

Good units, good life span

I bought these as part of Christmas gifts for my daughters and grandchildren for their homes...They were surprised, but they all said they could use one..even if they already had fire extinguisher...great gift, you just never know..

Needed these for our newly owned home. I was very happy to find ones that worked on different types of fires and are rechargeable. Fewer units since I don’t have to buy different kinds. No throwaways if you need to use them.

Well its been untested and I hope its never needed but I did install them in places where they might be need. They are a bit heavy but the mounting bracket seems to be able to handle.

I have these in case of a fire and have never needed them fortunately. I bought these to replace the same type ones I purchased 6 years ago. Although the "old" ones are fully charged, I felt better having new ones. I don't want to find the old ones don't work when I need them. Buying 4 at one time was more economical too.

Funny how long i pondered before i eventually bought fire extinguishers for my car and home... procrastinators folly! What's even dumber of me to think about... more often than not, while surfing youtube i come across educational vids that depict auto accidents with fires and home fires that, "if only they (or sombody had) a fire extiguisher" (i would mutter under my breath). I mean, some of the intense fires i've watched there and reasons the fire started and continue gathering momentum from adjacent fuel sources, are simply out of reasonableness for this size extinguisher BUT, if they start reasonably small and you get there in time, that would be a good day. Some of the videos i've watched for house fires (both interiors and exteriors) the owners had ZERO fire extinguishers and the description of how they started, clearly, if they even had one of these small ones, they could have ended it with some scorching and smoke damage and not a life changing event. Same for the car vids... i saw one where the fire started small at one side of the engine under the hood. Noone had an extinguisher. They were trying to throw gravel and dirt on it. Eventually the heat worked its way through the cowl into the interior and ignited the dash. By the time the fire department arrived it was fully engulfed. Another car vid, almost identicle scenario as above... seemed like about a dozen or more fellow motorists stopped and each one of them got a fire extiguisher out of their cars, popped the hood a crack and kept flooding the engine compartment and underneath with extiguishers... fire was completely out in about 2 minutes. I searched and it must have been "Belgian or some other country where it's mandated (among other things) because there were a lot of people in one place holding extinguishers, several didn't even get a chance to fire theres off. So it's wierd, knowing all this for years now, i'm just now staging extinguishers in important places... HA!

Good quality nozzle