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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
On the other hand, it's not like it's wise to be choosy beyond making sure the extinguisher is rated for your particular emergency.
"No, no, it's not going to spread that much. Let's wait and see if we can find the CO2 extinguisher..."
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Look closely to the right of the robot in the video. A volunteer in a black shirt brought a CO2 extinguisher, and you can see him pull the pin, while another volunteer(white shirt, towards the back of the robot) was holding a dry chemical extinguisher. As others have said, the dry chemical was applied to the fire; you can see the guy in the white shirt aim and discharge his extinguisher.
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Originally Posted by James Juncker
...the first extinguisher had its safety pin break off when someone attempted to pull it rendering the extinguisher useless increasing the time it took to extinguish the flames.
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This is probably why the dry chemical was used instead of CO2. After seeing the pin break, he decided it would be better to put it out with the powder than to let it burn to search for another CO2, if there was one. (Good idea.)
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hmmm... big open space between arena and pits... thousands of poof balls...thousands of high school kids hopped up on sugar and robotics.... sounds a little dangerous. - Courtneyb1023 [more] 
16-04-2016, 21:30
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