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  • n  a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires

  • At least five black men pulled Denny from his sand truck, bashed him with the vehicle's fire extinguisher, punched him and stole his wallet.
  • The requirements were strengthened in 1991, when the FAA required all large transport planes to carry smoke detectors in lavatories, an automatic fire extinguisher in trash .
  • PTI: Why a fire extinguisher? NICHOLSON: I was going to set the table on fire with bourbon out of my mouth, but I forgot they didn't give me real bourbon.
News & Articles

  • Monroe Extinguisher Hosts Fire Technology Demonstration
    Monroe Extinguisher is hosting a Fire Technology Demonstration on Thursday, July 18 to help educate customers about the latest products available for fire safety. (PRWeb June 12, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10824098.htm
    June 12, 2013 - PRWeb
  • Health Tip: Keep Fire Extinguisher Ready
    Title: Health Tip: Keep Fire Extinguisher Ready Category: Health News Created: 6/10/2013 8:35:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 6/10/2013 12:00:00 AM
    June 11, 2013 - MedicineNet.com
  • Extinguisher used to put out kitchen fire in house near Oakland
    OAKLAND (JG-TC) — A extinguisher was used to contain and put out a kitchen fire late Sunday afternoon in a house along Illinois Route 133 about a mile west of Oakland.
    June 10, 2013 - Journal Gazette & Times-Courier
Quotes

  • Helen Boaden in 940 News
    Boaden said police "wrestled him to the ground - the fire was burning through his clothes - and finally put him out with a fire extinguisher."
  • Guido Westerwelle in AsiaOne
    The loans "are not risk-free. But if there is a fire you have to grab hold of the nearest fire extinguisher," Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told Bild in comments published on Friday.
  • Alfie Kohn in Toronto Sun
    Kids are working a "second shift" that oppresses families, overburdens kids and "is the single greatest extinguisher of children's curiosity and their interest in learning," says Kohn, educator and author of The Homework Myth (Da Capo Press).

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