Fire on board

[Shaun Gander]

I'm laid up in to my second week off work so been reading some of the older threads.

I remember two fires that weren't really and one when I was fishing.

The fishing boat was one that had protential to turn bad, small hydraulic leaks praying on the the exhaust insulation until it ignited. That's when I learn lesson that dry powder extinguishers settle. We used a deck hose unsuccessfully and ended up pulling it off and throwing over the side.

Another was a stewardess/cook who has only done her fire training a couple of weeks before. She set fire to some burgers. The noise she made screaming fire had the whole crew and clients thinking were in serious trouble. Her later husband, the skipper was first there. When I arrived he was carrying a grill pan with 6 burning burgers onto deck and overboard.

The other was a nice quite transit where after hours the crew and client survey team would help themselves to snacks. I had just turned in when I hear one of them shouting "fire, fire, this is not a drill," repeatedly. He ha spurned his toast. Apparently that was the way the navy did it.

SDG

[Anthony Allen]

I only remember one fire, it was during the cooking of our Sunday roast lunch, the oil fires caught alight on the big stoves and we had to cover the whole lot with foam, subsequently we all had sandwiches for lunch instead of roast beef and all the trimmings. Didn't go down well. Lol!