Kidde Fire Extinguisher Recall Do you have one in your RV?

rockhillmanor wrote:
Also ALL those tiny fire extinguishers that come with the RV settle and when it comes time to use them they don't work.

I was at a rally where the Fire Department put on an educational seminar and said that numerous RV fires that were a total loss could have been prevented "IF" those fire extinguishers worked or a residential size extinguisher had been on board.

They said almost all the fire extinguishers in new RV's have already settled before being bought by the consumer.

Their recommendation was to routinely shake these fire extinguishers regularly to keep them from settling.

OR

Better yet buy an adult size extinguisher to replace the small ones that come from the RV factory which in actuality are not big enough to put even a small fire.

I tried mine at that Fire Department seminar and sure enough it didn't work. :(

Went out the next day and bought 2 big residential size extinguishers. One sits up front by the kitchen and the other in the back bedroom.

That Fire Department RV seminar was a REAL eye opener for me.

I shake mine at home at the daylight saving time change along with replacing smoke detector batteries. I think for the RV that I'll shake them whenever I take it out (just add it to the pre-trip checklist).

Oh, and my backup to the fire extinguisher in the trailer is a fire blanket, by far the most likely fire causes that I'm going to be able to fight are a cooking fire or the inverter, either is something I should be able to smother with the blanket and it serves double duty as a cold weather top blanket =)