r/Firefighting • u/AffableEffable • May 17 '25

Ask A Firefighter Is This Retired Firefighter's Claim About Putting Out a Car Fire Correct?

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Hi, I ran into this discussion on twitter, and most people in the comments were really mad at the ELBainter person (who claims to be a retired firefighter). I know absolutely nothing about any of this, so I was curious: are they right and the people there are just stupid, the opposite, or something in between?

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u/B2k-orphan May 17 '25

Originally I was disagreeing with retired ff guy but no, he’s right.

If there’s no-one in danger, you’re really not doing any good taking someone else’s little fire extinguisher and going at it. It’s not a threat, you’re not going to stop it with that, get away, let the active duty fire boys do active duty fire boy things.