Scott Vernon wrote:

Yes, mine drain out the side, onto the cabin top. The point was, if the
boat had vents then closing the hatch would be futile.

No it wouldn't! It'd burn that muych faster and the idiot who
left a naked flame untended wouldn't suffer so long before
incineration/drowning. I'm a firm believer in a little kindness.

BTW a buddy had someone (husband of woman he was 'seeing') try to set his
truck on fire. Put a cup of gas in the cab, lit it and closed the door.
Took a bit for the cup to melt and spill the gas ( allowed him a getaway)
which then burned the insides of the cab, but only for a few moments. It
suffocated. The fire chief said that if a window had been cracked open, even
1/4'', the truck would have burnt to the ground.

Way way back in our training, we were taught to put out fat fires
in fish & chip shops with an asbestos blanket (just smothered)
as this gave the shop owner some chance of recovering some of the
fat (this is soooo long ago that such places weren't required to
have fire blankets...). If one used the alternative of dry
powder, the powder would ruin the remaining fat, wheras all the
asbestos blanket did was give customers over the next 6 months
asbestosis in their future life.


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