i agree with sawmilleg 100 percent , around my house or my little workshop i always try to keep a water hose handy when im cutting,,one of those old brass pump cans saved my trailor and truck once back when i was younger and dumber,,,i was burning something off an old jeep cherokee while it was loaded and chained to my car trailor...



in most of the plants i work in it is against the rules to attempt to extinguish a fire with water, unless you obtain special permission from the saftey office........any type of hot work at all requires a hot work permit....to obtain the permit the foreman has to coordinate with the saftey officer, his crew , anyone else in the nearby areas, and at least one regular plant worker...once the job has been surveyed out they decide how many fire watch workers will be needed and what equipment they will be issued in case of an accident...

most of the time they will give us 2 fire extinguishers and a couple 5 gallon buckets of some type of soda ash.. it is rare but some times we will be given a water hose and told to keep the area wetted down..this is very rare and is usually in chemical plants and not power houses...the biggest part of the time we are specifically told under no circumstance to use water...these plants contain various types of chemicals and even flammable metals, also electric lines are involved a lot of the times...