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Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher 1A10BC, 1 Pack
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Top positive review
This little unit SAVED my neighbors house from a 2-story fire.
May 10, 2012
I purchased this fire extinguisher in 2001, and it has sat on my kitchen counter ever since. On March 17th, 2012, my next door neighbor was outside his house and VERY FOOLISHLY poured gasoline from a full 2.5-gallon container onto a pile of hot smoldering wooden logs. Of course the can exploded and it landed against the outside of his 2-story house. The house is wood frame house with painted wood siding. At this point he was on fire, so he rolled on the ground to put himself out. He ended up with 3rd degree burns, but his next action was to get up and come find me. I was working outside raking leaves when I heard him screaming. By this time the fire is raging against the outside of his house. The flames were about 8-10' wide against the side of his house and touching the top of his 2nd story gutter. As he was panicking and calling 911, I quickly retrieved the small Kiddie fire extinguisher from my kitchen and ran towards the blaze. At this point I am thinking I am shooting a bb-gun at a freight train, as there is no way this little extinguisher is going to do anything about this massive roaring fire. HOLY COW was I wrong... In a 4-5 second blast of fury, this little bast*rd reduced that overwhelming massive blaze to a 3' small and manageable fire. I put out the rest with a garden hose. The fire truck arrived 10-min later...
Bottom Line - this is one powerful punch in a small package. It proved that it can function effectively way outside its intended parameters. I highly recommend this device as it most definitely saved my neighbors house from certain destruction.
Bottom Line - this is one powerful punch in a small package. It proved that it can function effectively way outside its intended parameters. I highly recommend this device as it most definitely saved my neighbors house from certain destruction.
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Top critical review
FAILED COMPLETELY DURING KITCHEN FIRE
April 15, 2016
I had an apartment fire on March 20. I grabbed my Kidde FA110, which was stationed next to my stove that had caught fire. It was all of 4 months since purchase. I pulled the pin and pushed the lever - and nothing. I spent 30 seconds trying to get it to work, closely examining the handle and mechanism to see what might be preventing its firing. I finally had to give up any attempt at putting out the fire as the extinguisher just would not work; I was also getting burns at this point, so I egressed the apartment and waited seven minutes for the fire department to arrive and begin engaging the fire, at which time it had progressed from a simple stove fire to a structural fire. Thank goodness I have good insurance. I will never purchase another kidde product again, and based on my own experience would advise anyone who values their property, possessions and lives to PURCHASE ANY OTHER BRAND.
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April 15, 2016
I had an apartment fire on March 20. I grabbed my Kidde FA110, which was stationed next to my stove that had caught fire. It was all of 4 months since purchase. I pulled the pin and pushed the lever - and nothing. I spent 30 seconds trying to get it to work, closely examining the handle and mechanism to see what might be preventing its firing. I finally had to give up any attempt at putting out the fire as the extinguisher just would not work; I was also getting burns at this point, so I egressed the apartment and waited seven minutes for the fire department to arrive and begin engaging the fire, at which time it had progressed from a simple stove fire to a structural fire. Thank goodness I have good insurance. I will never purchase another kidde product again, and based on my own experience would advise anyone who values their property, possessions and lives to PURCHASE ANY OTHER BRAND.
June 25, 2016
Here's the problem: The brand new fire extinguisher failed when I tried to use it on a vehicle fire just a couple of months after purchasing it. Just a tiny puff of contents came out, and the pressure guage still was in the green zone. Fire fighters arrived and put out the fire. They looked at the fire extinguisher to make sure it wasn't user error and confirmed that it wasn't working.
To the good, Kidde replaced the fire extinguisher after I called them up, and they requested that I send the defective back for their examination with shipping prepaid.
But the experience makes me wonder....how do you know if a fire extinguisher will work before the time you need it most? I checked if a failure was a regular occurrence. I couldn't find information on that but I was surprised how many fire extinguisher recalls have occurred. Would consumers even know?
To the good, Kidde replaced the fire extinguisher after I called them up, and they requested that I send the defective back for their examination with shipping prepaid.
But the experience makes me wonder....how do you know if a fire extinguisher will work before the time you need it most? I checked if a failure was a regular occurrence. I couldn't find information on that but I was surprised how many fire extinguisher recalls have occurred. Would consumers even know?
September 18, 2016
Agree, don't buy this product.
I purchased 3 Heavy Duty 5lb ABC Fire Extinguishers (another brand) for our home. I wanted to purchase a smaller extinguisher so my children could see it used on a test fire. I thought it would be important for them to feel the pressure of the spray and see that it would really work. I purchased the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher. I prepared them that it would only spray for about 4-5 seconds and would use the PASS routine on a small fire I created in our yard. The product didn't work. My son pulled the clip just fine. My daughter took aim at the base of the fire and squeezed and nothing happened. She tried a few times before I tried myself. I got one microsecond burst and it was done. Gauge still read full. I saw the look on my children's faces. The trust and confidence I hoped to develop was gone.
I was hoping to demonstrate the usefulness of using a fire extinguisher on a real fire to give them trust and confidence in the event of a real incident. Products like this are counted on to work. Imagine if this was purchased as a primary device and needed to be used in a real situation. What a horror and nightmare that would have been. Again, do not buy this product.
I purchased 3 Heavy Duty 5lb ABC Fire Extinguishers (another brand) for our home. I wanted to purchase a smaller extinguisher so my children could see it used on a test fire. I thought it would be important for them to feel the pressure of the spray and see that it would really work. I purchased the Kidde FA110 Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher. I prepared them that it would only spray for about 4-5 seconds and would use the PASS routine on a small fire I created in our yard. The product didn't work. My son pulled the clip just fine. My daughter took aim at the base of the fire and squeezed and nothing happened. She tried a few times before I tried myself. I got one microsecond burst and it was done. Gauge still read full. I saw the look on my children's faces. The trust and confidence I hoped to develop was gone.
I was hoping to demonstrate the usefulness of using a fire extinguisher on a real fire to give them trust and confidence in the event of a real incident. Products like this are counted on to work. Imagine if this was purchased as a primary device and needed to be used in a real situation. What a horror and nightmare that would have been. Again, do not buy this product.
December 24, 2014
Update:
So I thought I should report what happened after leaving the initial review (below). Kidde contacted me wanting to know a bit more about the incident, and shortly after, I received another email stating that this product was recalled due to the faulty plastic lever (? don't remember the exact wording), then shortly after, I received another fire extinguisher from them - same brand, pretty much the same kind. However by then I've already purchased another fire extinguisher from a local hardware store as well as a spray tin type extinguisher plus a fire blanket so now I have to say I'm pretty well prepared! While I was impressed how Kidde followed up this way, I've learned my lesson to always have a backup (or two), so will keep several of them handy.
(Original review)
I rarely leave reviews, and even rarer leave the 1 star review. However, I feel obliged to do so in this instance - as I wish I had read something like this prior to trusting this extinguisher.
Last night, we had a very scary incident of our oven engulfed in fire which started when the muffin tray got too close to the heating unit. As we saw the smoke coming out and big fire inside the oven, I quickly reached this very extinguisher which I purchased from Amazon (I bought a 1 pack one which is no longer available thus I'm leaving a review here as it's the same exact model - just 2 pack instead of 1) about 7 months ago.
My husband pulled out the pin, opened the oven door (and the fire got even bigger shooting out from the oven), aimed at it and squeezed the lever. Nothing happened. Then I tried it multiple times, nothing. Then it finally shot out a tiny puff of yellow powder on the floor, and that was it. Unbelieable.
At that point, the whole kitchen was smoked up and the fire was sneaking out of the oven unit, fire alarms beeping all over, baby crying, and how I cursed myself trusting this stupid extinguisher. As I was about to call the fire department however, my husband rushed to the bathroom and soaked a bath towel, covered the fire with the dripping wet towel (which melted into pieces of hard prastic in the end, to my surprise) and finally was able to put out the fire. I had to run outside with my baby as the whole house was smoking up. It surely was one scary moment.
Annoying that our fire extinguisher still shows the green "full" pressure level even though it already discharged that little puff and released the pressure. The thing is, you can never test it out as once you do the pressure goes ofcourse and it's useless.
Although I have to say that one big red flag was that when we received it from Amazon the box was unbelievably damaged. It was torn open and I actually even took some photos as I was going to write a review back then about the poor packaging, but didn't get around to do so (I found these photos from my old iPhone and attaching them to this review). I am an avid Amazon shopper, and this was by far the worst packaging I've ever seen. The box also had dusts on it as if it's been sitting in some warehouse shelf for a long time. Although I kept it as 1) you cannot return it anyway 2) the extinguisher inside the damaged box looked ok, and the pressure gauge said "full".
I wonder how many people out of some hundreds of positive reviews got to actually use them. I still have a flashback when I walk into my house which still smells smokey and our fire extinguisher outside our door waiting to go to the trash. I'll go looking for a new fire extinguisher by another brand, and will this time buy them from the actual store.
So I thought I should report what happened after leaving the initial review (below). Kidde contacted me wanting to know a bit more about the incident, and shortly after, I received another email stating that this product was recalled due to the faulty plastic lever (? don't remember the exact wording), then shortly after, I received another fire extinguisher from them - same brand, pretty much the same kind. However by then I've already purchased another fire extinguisher from a local hardware store as well as a spray tin type extinguisher plus a fire blanket so now I have to say I'm pretty well prepared! While I was impressed how Kidde followed up this way, I've learned my lesson to always have a backup (or two), so will keep several of them handy.
(Original review)
I rarely leave reviews, and even rarer leave the 1 star review. However, I feel obliged to do so in this instance - as I wish I had read something like this prior to trusting this extinguisher.
Last night, we had a very scary incident of our oven engulfed in fire which started when the muffin tray got too close to the heating unit. As we saw the smoke coming out and big fire inside the oven, I quickly reached this very extinguisher which I purchased from Amazon (I bought a 1 pack one which is no longer available thus I'm leaving a review here as it's the same exact model - just 2 pack instead of 1) about 7 months ago.
My husband pulled out the pin, opened the oven door (and the fire got even bigger shooting out from the oven), aimed at it and squeezed the lever. Nothing happened. Then I tried it multiple times, nothing. Then it finally shot out a tiny puff of yellow powder on the floor, and that was it. Unbelieable.
At that point, the whole kitchen was smoked up and the fire was sneaking out of the oven unit, fire alarms beeping all over, baby crying, and how I cursed myself trusting this stupid extinguisher. As I was about to call the fire department however, my husband rushed to the bathroom and soaked a bath towel, covered the fire with the dripping wet towel (which melted into pieces of hard prastic in the end, to my surprise) and finally was able to put out the fire. I had to run outside with my baby as the whole house was smoking up. It surely was one scary moment.
Annoying that our fire extinguisher still shows the green "full" pressure level even though it already discharged that little puff and released the pressure. The thing is, you can never test it out as once you do the pressure goes ofcourse and it's useless.
Although I have to say that one big red flag was that when we received it from Amazon the box was unbelievably damaged. It was torn open and I actually even took some photos as I was going to write a review back then about the poor packaging, but didn't get around to do so (I found these photos from my old iPhone and attaching them to this review). I am an avid Amazon shopper, and this was by far the worst packaging I've ever seen. The box also had dusts on it as if it's been sitting in some warehouse shelf for a long time. Although I kept it as 1) you cannot return it anyway 2) the extinguisher inside the damaged box looked ok, and the pressure gauge said "full".
I wonder how many people out of some hundreds of positive reviews got to actually use them. I still have a flashback when I walk into my house which still smells smokey and our fire extinguisher outside our door waiting to go to the trash. I'll go looking for a new fire extinguisher by another brand, and will this time buy them from the actual store.
October 24, 2018
As you can see in the attached pictures, the fire extinguisher discharged while in transit, It had the powder all over its box. The safety pin was not attached to it, the pin was sitting in the bottom of the box. Gauge was covered by its powder and when I wiped it off, it read empty.
I will not purchase again and do not recommend.
I will not purchase again and do not recommend.
July 10, 2017
I bought this extinguisher in May of 2016. Just yesterday we were cooking food on an electric grill on my balcony and somehow a fire started. I pulled it this extinguisher and it sprayed for only the first 2 seconds and then COMPLETELY STOPPED. The tank is completely full and yet no spraying of the solution. I AM FURIOUS. We were able to contain and stop the fire otherwise, but I'm just truly upset that I bought this product to serve this purpose, and when I REALLY, REALLY needed it TO WORK it FAILED ME. It failed me in an emergency. I would not advise buying as a result
May 19, 2017
I bought this unit two years ago (it's supposed to be good for six?) and followed all directions, keeping it by my stove in case of fire. And a fire happened. Something is apparently wrong with my electric stove because I was only boiling water when flames started licking up the pot. I moved the pot, grabbed my fire extinguisher and set to work. Before I sprayed, it was on the green, full setting. It gave one poof of powder which lasted maybe a second, messed up my kitchen, and merely sneezed on the fire.
I eventually put out the fire by covering it with a lid, which slowed it a bit, and then put the rest out with baking soda. I'm so lucky that the fire didn't spread, but no thanks to this faulty extinguisher. It probably cost me a minute of fumbling because I kept trying to get it to work.
Don't take this as advice, but for myself I'm going to get a large bag of baking soda and keep it instead of the extinguisher. It won't be as good as a functioning extinguisher, but I'd rather go to something that I can trust and not waste time with faulty equipment.
I eventually put out the fire by covering it with a lid, which slowed it a bit, and then put the rest out with baking soda. I'm so lucky that the fire didn't spread, but no thanks to this faulty extinguisher. It probably cost me a minute of fumbling because I kept trying to get it to work.
Don't take this as advice, but for myself I'm going to get a large bag of baking soda and keep it instead of the extinguisher. It won't be as good as a functioning extinguisher, but I'd rather go to something that I can trust and not waste time with faulty equipment.
September 9, 2018
Short version, I cannot recommend any Kidde fire extinguisher and you should buy one from another brand.
Upon moving into my new home I bought a Kidde fire extinguisher for the kitchen. I bought it because of the very solid reviews, price point, and, quite frankly, brand recognition. Upon arriving the extinguisher seemed well-made and in working order. I set it aside against emergency and largely forgot about it . . . until the first recall. I received a recall notice from Kidde, telling me to print out labels, a box would be shipped to me, etc. It was annoying but recalls happen so I didn't think too much of it. My replacement extinguisher eventually arrived and I once again set it and forgot about it . . . until the second recall. I received another notice, more directions, went through the whole rigamarole again. Again another extinguisher arrived, this time a different model (and, I will admit, Kidde actually sent me a superior version), and I once again set it and forgot about it . . . until the third recall. Apparently even this different model was also being recalled. At this point I gave up and swore off Kidde extinguishers.
Because of all this, I recommend avoiding a Kidde extinguisher. I will not buy from them again.
Upon moving into my new home I bought a Kidde fire extinguisher for the kitchen. I bought it because of the very solid reviews, price point, and, quite frankly, brand recognition. Upon arriving the extinguisher seemed well-made and in working order. I set it aside against emergency and largely forgot about it . . . until the first recall. I received a recall notice from Kidde, telling me to print out labels, a box would be shipped to me, etc. It was annoying but recalls happen so I didn't think too much of it. My replacement extinguisher eventually arrived and I once again set it and forgot about it . . . until the second recall. I received another notice, more directions, went through the whole rigamarole again. Again another extinguisher arrived, this time a different model (and, I will admit, Kidde actually sent me a superior version), and I once again set it and forgot about it . . . until the third recall. Apparently even this different model was also being recalled. At this point I gave up and swore off Kidde extinguishers.
Because of all this, I recommend avoiding a Kidde extinguisher. I will not buy from them again.
March 10, 2017
I bought this back in April and put it under my kitchen sink in case if fire. I was excited bc it was a good price and looked easy to use. I just got around to reading the directions (which I know is my fault for waiting so long) and I took it out of the box and the gauge is reading "empty"!! It says right on the extinguisher that it needs to be replaced if it's reading empty. So now I have a worthless fire extinguisher that I can't return. Don't buy this product!!
November 23, 2018
Shocked to see white powder on both extinguishers I ordered. No safety ring on. They were used and empty and put in a box. Not eligible to return to Amazon. Just contacted Kidde. Needless to say I want to return them and get a refund. We'll see how it goes. UPDATE: after a few days costumer service sent me this email: "
We do not do refunds, if you would like a refund you will need to contact Amazon. I will however send you two replacement extinguishers, you should receive them within 7-10 business days. Thank you." No "apologies", "we're shocked" or anything similar. I guess this happens to them a lot. I received the new extinguishers a few days later. Now I need to find out where to dispose the first ones.
We do not do refunds, if you would like a refund you will need to contact Amazon. I will however send you two replacement extinguishers, you should receive them within 7-10 business days. Thank you." No "apologies", "we're shocked" or anything similar. I guess this happens to them a lot. I received the new extinguishers a few days later. Now I need to find out where to dispose the first ones.
