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If there was a fire at your place , would you run around searching for your cell phone to dial 911 or head for the fire extinguisher ? UNless your smoke detector is already programmed to do that.
The idea here is to embedd a cheap hardcoded radio transmitter on the fire-extinguisher which would dial
911, along with the location,which can be programmed [ no need for GPS , since you dont move around with your F.E.]. When the seal is broken the call could be placed. The radio needs to get powered up on the fly using the energy released by the hose.
How do you propose to get this
http://primes.utm.e...gifs/Porsche911.jpg
inside a fire extinguisher? [calum, Apr 08 2005]
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unnecesssary if one has a hardwired security system installed, (very widely know to exist), which calls the F.D, long before you have located your FE |
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I was thinking this was some way to acquire a Porsche, by some hitherto unexplained means. My security system calls the fire department, if a smoke detector goes off. |
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Since I don't have a security system, and I do have a fire extinguisher, this might be helpful. It might also be embarrassing if I use the extinguisher to put out the fire on my grill when its flammable paint catches fire (not that it did, but it has for other people). Need to add a switch on the extinguisher to keep it from calling. |
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Is 911 a # for emergencies only in the US? |
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I was under the impression it worked in the UK too along with 999 but without experimenting... |
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BT operator tells me that 999 and 112 will connect to the emergency services but not 911. |
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just dialled 911 and a recorded voice tells me that that number has not been recognised. |
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dent, don't say I never do anything for you ... |
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thanks [po] I appreciate all the effort... |
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but wouldn't a true half-baker half-bake a small incendiary device, set something half-aflame, and then call it in to check out the theory? just askin' |
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as an ex-london ambulance service worker, I could never bring myself to make a call that could be deemed time-wasting/hoax. |
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btw, I can understand how USians might abbreviate toilet paper to tp but fire extinguishers to FE?! |
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if you are asking me specifically [po], well I never called it that until [halfbloke] said it. |
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perhaps he works in the FE industry!? |
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"Get the fecking FE, its over there" |
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"Get the fecking FE, its over there, by Fred, quick" |
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"the fecking Fire Extinguisher, you fecking prat!" |
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The first shout should have been "F!" |
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