Reference no: EM133293092

While at work, Jack Thompson, a health care professional, smells smoke and goes to investigate. He discovers the trash can in the restroom has smoke billowing from it, and he runs to get a fire extinguisher. The fire extinguisher is not where he thought it was, and by the time he returns to the restroom, there is smoke coming out from under the door. Jack opens the door, pulls the pin out of the extinguisher, moves as close as he can to the flames, and aims directly down into the trash can. He then hears someone coughing in one of the bathroom stalls and discovers a patient slumped on the floor. Jack pulls the patient out of the bathroom, but in the process, some of the white powdery residue from the fire extinguisher gets on the patient's skin. Jack is pleased with his actions and thinks to himself, "This patient might have died if I hadn't smelled the smoke and put the fire out."