This education will provide an overview of cooking fire stats, photo and videos images of experiments demonstrating various aspects of cooktop fire phenomena (such as the types of foods that can ignite, fire growth and subsequent room flashover, re-ignition after suppression, boil-over), a discussion of relevant cooktop standards, a look at the hazards of a gasoline spill fire versus a cooktop fire, technologies that address cooktop fires and a practical example from the Worcester, MA Fire Department's program to retrofit electric coil heating element cooktops.
