One of the tenants in another building of our apartment complex unintentionally attempted this experiment yesterday. He ran a pan of flaming oil from the stove to the bathtub where the applied water caused flames to spread across the ceiling triggering the sprinkler system/alarm. It flooded his 5th floor unit and all of the apartments four floors below it. Sigh

Oh no! I'd have put a lid on the pan to put it out.

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Scary if you understand the image of a person pouring a pot full of water onto a flaming stove top oil fire (french fries, fried chicken, etc).

Snuff the fire out by throwing a lid on the pan.
Use an aerosol extinguisher.
Use a "K" class grease extinguisher, or Halon.

Don't throw water.
Burn units are sad, sad places.

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BAKING SODA!

Water sinks in oil, then flashes to steam, violently displacing the oil, oil that's already near or beyond the vaporization temperature. The hot oil, flying in all directions in tiny droplets, vaporizes, and you then have a small fuel air bomb. Great if you want to be hairless, but otherwise a bad bad thing, especially indoors. See above about burn units.

Baking soda floats on the oil making a film that stops it from reacting with oxygen, and stops the fire fast. It works for most fires if you have enough to smother it.