<<And climbing hastily up onto a roof in an emergency situation sounds like something to avoid doing!
Actually I was calm and ran out to my shop, grabbed my large extinguisher, pulled the cap and gaver hell! It was a dry chemical ext and it worked great, out with 3 blasts and my pipe is 25ft.
Heh, heh! I probably would not have been calm!
Thanks for the report on the effectiveness of the fire extinguisher. I see you pulled off the chimney cap ----how hot was that? As I understand it, many chimney fires have the fire spouting a lot of flames out the top of the stack!
Frankly it would not have occurred to me to go up on the roof in that situation. How did you come to fight the fire that way?
I've tried to imagine how I should react to such a fire, and using a fire extinguisher indoors at the stove is what occurs to me as the thing to do. Would you use your roof attack method again should need be? What would you change based on your experience?
"Be Prepared" is a good motto--- I try to plan in advance for situations like a chimney fire so I'm not improvising should an emergency occur.
Based on your experience, are you happy with having your fire extinguisher located in the garage? Would having a second fire extinguisher be worth considering, or was the garage location handy and accessible when the time came to need to use it?
Personally, I keep my dry chemical fire extinguisher under the kitchen sink, about 15 feet from the stove. My theory is that you want the extinguisher handy to the stove, but not in the same room where a fire might restrict access to it.