BLAZING BATTLES

Among all of the life lessons you were inundated with as a child, there are some that have probably stuck with you throughout your life. Look both ways before you cross the street, don’t run with scissors, and, from the time you were young, “stop, drop, and roll” in case your clothing ever catches on fire. As you got older, and realized your clothing doesn’t catch on fire quite as often as you were led to believe, perhaps you began to notice fire extinguishers for those times when virtually anything besides your clothing goes up in flames.

Fire extinguishers have been around for hundreds of years and have been a staple in fire safety for the past century. You walk by them every day and pay little or no attention to the red cylinders hanging on the walls or support posts of your local stores,