Christian McArdle wrote:
Yes. Most fire extinguisher training consists of telling you not to bother!
I certainly see little point in those 1kg things. At least you got a chance
with a 6kg and a dustbin.

When I had a minor blaze in a (very fortunately metal, solid) wastepaper
bucket, I inverted a large frying-pan over it until the fire snuffed
itself out.

I then had to ask my cleaner *very* nicely for a new bucket, and colour
in the white ring in the carpet with magic-marker.

Fortunately this was before the days of smoke detectors, or the Warden
and 349 other students might have found out.

Owain