Yes and you'll need several hundred litres of dripping to fill it.
>>It mentions in the article that fire services where giving people deep fat fryers in exchange for their old fashioned chip pans.
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>Maybe I'll swing by my local fire station later to collect one. But won't more fat equate to bigger fire ? :-}
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>>One big cause of the fires used to be people coming home from the pub putting their chip pan on the hob and then falling asleep.
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>>Ironically I used to work in a fire control centre and one of the firemen there told me when he had an oil pan fire at home it completely threw him and he did end up chucking it out the kitchen door.
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>>>>>What to do - and NOT do - if you have an oil fire in the kitchen:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGzbd0IvUE>>>>>
>>>>>It was sure news to me. 35 seconds well-spent.
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>>>>Hi al
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>>>>you shouldn't try and chuck it out the door into the garden either as that can cause it to flare up in your face.
>>>>and buy a proper fryer
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http://www.fireservice.co.uk/safety/chippans.php>>>
>>>Yes, in the YouTube video the narrator/victim says not to try to move the pan, just cover/smother it as shown.
