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[151949]

Just a little safety tip I learned the hard way. I used to work in an area where all the patients wore one of those monitor packs and they used up a tremendous amount of batteries. Constantly having to run down a long hall to the supply room for batteries so I started keeping batteries in my pocket. One day the terminals on 2 batteries in my pocket touched and started a fire in my pocket. I got a small but very deep burn , clothes were ruined. Fire is always the worst fear in an ICU setting with so many patients on oxygen so the air is oxygen rich, it really went from nothing to something big extremely fast. NEVER PUT BATTERIES IN YOUR POCKET.

[151949]

BTW - one of my co workers was quick thinking and grabbed a fire extinguisher to put the fire out but in the process he accidently conked me so hard in the head with the fire extinguisher that he knocked me out.

[Kachina624]

I watched a documentary on wild land fire fighters last night.  The US Forest Service keeps the supplied with the tools they need.  They mentioned that they use 300,000 AA batteries a week.  I thought they must be using QVC blameless candles.