THSCC Bus Fire Extinguishers

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 8:53 am

The guy from Pye Barker is coming this afternoon to inspect/charge/etc these and I wanted to make sure that we're all in agreement about what's getting done.

What we have:

7 large commercial extinguisher holding tubes for worker extinguishers
6 large commercial extinguishers, 3 of which are charged
1 small consumer throw-away extinguisher, charged
1 small commercial extinguisher that sits next to the bus driver seat, charged

What I'm doing:

Have all commercial extinguishers inspected and charged as necessary.
Purchase 1 large commercial extinguisher so all worker extinguisher tubes are filled with inspected, charged, large commercial extinguishers.

Please let me know if we want to do anything different.

Thanks,
Roger

Jordan Normark · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 10:28 am

Roger, Thank you for taking care of this. It's been a while.

BriceJohnson · **Joined:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:33 am **Posts:** 2230

Yep, sounds like a plan. Thanks Roger!

RickyBeam · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 4:12 pm

The 7th (there used to be 8) was left in Nathan's truck at the VIR rallyx (discharged). I'll ping him to see if he minds getting someone in CLT to recharge it.

I'll do the zip-tie trick for the pins like I did for the Duff pit extinguisher.

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 10:18 pm

We are good to go. There are 7 inspected charged large commercial extinguishers in the trailer and a small one next to the driver's seat.

The Pye Barker service tech has added me to his service records (he services three other businesses on my street) and will schedule annual on-site inspections going forward.

Please let me know if any of the extinguishers get discharged. If I know about it, then the service tech will stop by my office and swap it out with a charged unit. Only having 3 out of our 7 extinguishers charged is probably not optimal from a safety perspective.

Chad Culbertson · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2016 12:45 am

Roger McDaniels wrote:

We are good to go. There are 7 inspected charged large commercial extinguishers in the trailer and a small one next to the driver's seat.

The Pye Barker service tech has added me to his service records (he services three other businesses on my street) and will schedule annual on-site inspections going forward.

Please let me know if any of the extinguishers gets discharged. If I know about it, then the service tech will stop by my office and swap it out with a charged unit. Only having 3 out of our 7 extinguishers charged is probably not optimal from a safety perspective.

Nothing like needing something to put a fire out and it not working....

Roger McDaniels · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2016 3:57 am

I saw the car next to me in the paddock at an HPDE at CMP on fire (engine bay) and they didn't appear to have an extinguisher handy, so I grabbed one out of the Duff car for them. Another car at VIR had a mechanical issue, parked off track in the grass right after T4, and then started burning, I believe as a result of the exhaust lighting the dry grass under the car. I think it took a while to get an extinguisher to that car. You hardly ever need an extinguisher, but when you do, you really need it.

Chad Culbertson · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2016 11:34 am

Roger McDaniels wrote:

I saw the car next to me in the paddock at an HPDE at CMP on fire (engine bay) and they didn't appear to have an extinguisher handy, so I grabbed one out of the Duff car for them. Another car at VIR had a mechanical issue, parked off track in the grass right after T4, and then started burning, I believe as a result of the exhaust lighting the dry grass under the car. I think it took a while to get an extinguisher to that car. You hardly ever need an extinguisher, but when you do, you really need it.

Indeed, having one handy saved my house from burning down several years ago.

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