Where can we purchase a fire extinguisher for our home?

Most hardware/home improvement stores sell them.

Thanks! Do you know what section, bychance? :D

Lowes or Home Depot.

@squirbel I don’t. You’ll have to ask an employee.

I know walmart sells them

Every community has a guy who fills extinguishers for the fire department and ambulance service. He probably does it in his home garage. You want to buy one from him. Call the FD or ambulance and ask who they use. You will get an extinguisher that has 3–5x the capacity of the toys they sell at Home Depot or WalMart. And at a similar price!
All units need to be checked and refilled periodically. The tank may look used but it will be pressure checked and just as good as if it came out of a big box store. We have four of them in our house: one in the garage, one on each side of the living room where we have the wood burning stove and one near the wood burner in the basement.

Oh! And one in each car!

If he is not home, the guy leaves the extinguishers outside.his garage door with your name on them. You take what you need and slip the money under the door. How cool is that?

@worriedguy Holy crap, you take safety seriously.

Good for you @worriedguy. I have one mounted to the one of the cabinets in my kitchen and one in my travel trailer. And you’re right, they need to be checked and maintained or they won’t do you much good. I putting that on my to do list. I probably should have one for the car. I had an engine catch fire once and saw an interior car fire, not my car this time, go from five inch flames in the driver’s seat to a pretty much fire-ravaged, gutted interior in the time it took the fire truck to get there.

Thank you @worriedguy! I will definitely check into that; your answer was the most helpful in my opinion. :)

Hardware stores. Also boating supply stores. They are not cheap!

During the peak of winter I have two wood burning stoves going. The stove in my living room is one of those high efficiency units that run at 750 degrees. That is a very hot fire in my living room. It is designed to run that hot to burn of any particulates and to extract the most heat from the wood.
Even though they both work perfectly there is no escaping the fact that I have an extremely hot fire in my house. I want the best fire extinguishers I can get.
@cockswain Of course I take safety seriously.
Look at my name.
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@worriedguy I thought about making a comment about how that coincides with your name, but thought it might trouble you too much.

Be sure to get one rated for class A, class B and class C fire types. A is wood and paper, B is flammable liquid, C is electrical. I would say a minimum 2A10BC. The number refers to the amount of “fire” an inexperienced user should be able to extinguish. I believe the most likely fire in a kitchen is a flammable liquid. The A rating might not be absolutely needed, but if it might be used anywhere else in the house, get an ABC.
Also, a local fire extinguisher servicing company might have a good deal.When I worked for one of these companies, we offered classes on proper extinguisher use. Maybe that will be available in your area also. The fire department might offer classes too. Take a class if you get a chance.
When I serviced extinguishers, the annual inspection was visual. Check the gauge to make sure the pressure is in the green. Look at the shell. Is it intact? Any rust? any dents?A dry chemical will shift it’s weight when turned upside down. That’s the chemical shifting.Its supposed to do that. Somewhere on the shell there is a date stamped into the metal. That’s its birthday. Every six years, take it to a service company to have it internally checked. Every 12 years it is supposed to have the shell hydrostaticly checked. They fill it full of water, pressurize it and see how much it deforms. Probably too much hassle for a homeowner but thats the requirements around here for commercial facilities.