A background story to start. Few years ago, my wife encountered a desperate fellow alongside the road. She could see his rig was starting to burn under the hood, and the guy was getting a little frantic. But I was sure to buy a brand new extinguisher for her rig, when we bought the car. She retrieved the tool from it's special place and handed it to the happy victim. He pulled the pin, pointed and ......NOTHING..... To keep a long story from getting even longer. The guy lost his car. I took care that we would have that unused extinguisher (and paid the money) for just such things - but when we needed it......nothin'!!!!

There's the old saw, "Oh you need to relentlessly check your fire extinguisher every day" or "change them out every other week" or "spend half your life in prayer that it will work when you need it." But we all know the only thing this "advice" creates is an excuse for someone to say "I told you so" when failure occurs, cause in the real world this stuff won't happen.

What we need is a viable fire fighting tool that works when we need it. Even if it is not nearly as effective as a functioning fire extinguisher (which we won't have in all likelyhood). It would be REAL nice if compressed air was NOT involved (unless we pump up in the field)

In the Old Daze there were little glass balls filled with Carbon Tetracloride or little pump up squirt extinguishers loaded with the aforementioned. Is the best thing we can do today carrying a box of baking soda?