A father of four has issued a warning to all homeowners to purchase one “lifesaving” item for their homes—revealing how it helped him narrowly avoid a potentially lethal accident at his own property. Picture: TikTok
A father of four has issued a warning to all homeowners to purchase one “lifesaving” item for their houses—revealing how it helped him to narrowly avoid a potentially lethal accident at his own property.
Dillon White, from Minneapolis in the US, who is known on TikTok as @dadchats, took to the video-sharing app with an essential tip, captioning the clip: “Scary moments last night but this thing saved my house.”
In the video, which White filmed from the front seat of his car, he proceeded to detail the incident, Realtor reports.
White explained he was cooking on his barbecue when it suddenly went up in flames.
“Hey, I’m maybe going to save your life today,” he began. “Maybe your kids’ lives or your pets’ lives or your whole house. Because that’s what happened to me yesterday.
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“I don’t really know what happened, but the grill that we have on our deck outside just decided ‘I don’t like you today,’” he went on. “A combination of that and apparently a whole lot of grease in the bottom. And the thing just went up.”
After turning the gas supply off, the fire just got worse.
“I started to notice that there were embers that were flying into our yard and close to the playground, which is wood and [near] the cushions from the couches,” he recalled.
Thankfully, White remembered that he had an item on hand that could help him contain the blaze: a $29.99 Prepared Hero “fire blanket” that he randomly purchased after seeing it online and then strapped to the bottom of his grill in the event of an incident like the one he experienced.
Fire blankets in Australia can cost from $20-$30 depending on their size.
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A father of four has issued a warning to all homeowners to purchase one “lifesaving” item for their homes—revealing how it helped him narrowly avoid a potentially lethal accident at his own property. Picture: TikTok
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“This is not a sponsored post,” he insisted. “I just think that it’s something that everyone should have.
“I’m sure that there’s other knockoffs that are cheaper, but I don’t know if they work,” he said. “That’s not really something that you wanna find out at the point of use, whether or not it works, you know what I mean?
“I threw it over the grill top and the fire was out in seconds. I legitimately do not know what would’ve happened if I didn’t have it.”
The blanket itself is made from two layers of fiberglass, and it basically works by starving out the oxygen from the fire. It also has a protective film on it so you don’t get fiberglass shards everywhere.
“When you see a fire, you literally just pull the tabs on that package and when you have it out and you throw this thing over the fire, and it isolates fires up to like a little bit over a thousand degrees, which is insane,” he explained.
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Fire blankets can extinguish fires in seconds.
“It is something that like even kids can learn to use, which is important to me because like fire extinguishers are not the easiest things,” he said. “Teaching a child how to use one of those is very foreign to them, but teaching them how to throw a blanket over something, they’re used to that.”
Followers commented on how smart is is to keep the blankets around the home, too.
“My kids both have extra large fire blankets on the back of their bedroom doors because the blankets are big enough to wrap around them to escape the house if all other options are gone,” one wrote.
Another said, “I grew up in a family of firemen, and my dad has placed a fire blanket in every room of my house.”
Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor and were republished with permission.
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