On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:16:57 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I think you could toss a glass bottle of carbon tet and have it break
open. I recall glass "bombs" in holders for that purpose.

Pawn Stars had an episode when a customer brought some of these in.
Very old but not practical to use today

ISTR the pawn shop bought them for vintage historical reasons.

Seems they hung on a wall and tossed when needed for a fire.

Called a glass ball fire extinguisher grenade.

Sample:

http://cdn2.armslist.com/sites/armslist/uploads/posts/2013/01/06/806531_01_2_vintage_red_comet_glass_fire_640.jpg