It’s always great to see Fire Equipment in movies or TV shows. However, placement and use are rarely accurate. In Netflix’s new movie Nonnas, Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) loses his mother (Kate Eastman) and decides to open a restaurant in her honor, with Italian grandmothers running the kitchen.
At around the 44-minute mark, the grandma cooks get into an argument. The humorous fight scene culminates with a kitchen fire. There are a couple of things wrong in the scene:
- Nozzles didn’t seem to be present over the cooking appliances.
- The pull station and fire extinguisher seem too close to the hazard.
- A placard isn’t in place to tell staff to activate the system before using the extinguisher.
- Shelving is present above the cooking appliances, which could block the system discharge if there was one.
- The Amerex extinguisher used was a dry chemical extinguisher, not a wet chemical Class K extinguisher.
After the scene, Joe is outside and receives a fine because his “Ansul System” was shut off. Regardless of the film’s flaws regarding Fire and Life Safety, it does highlight the importance of properly working fire extinguishers and kitchen systems. The movie is now on Netflix; you can view the trailer below.
Image via Netflix.
