In planning the up coming PAT Pyro event, I ran across an interesting Fire Extinguishing Device.
This is an exploding fire extinguisher. I kind of want to try this out on our burn out pile at the event. Here is a picture of the use case.
If you are now wondering why I posted, “Don’t set this off in your hands?” Here is a youtube video showing a father doing just that. He isn’t hurt in the video, he is just a bad role model for his kid at this moment.
Don’t set off explosives in your hand, it is never a good idea. Judging by the pop, had the explosive settled to the bottom of the device it could of blown through the gloves and harmed his hand. I would guess this explosive equivalent to 2 or 3 tea spoons of gun powder or really crappy flash powder, which lit in contact with the hand would easily burn if not rip flesh.