Fire extinguishers are becoming an ever-familiar component of the urban landscape. Few office buildings are equipped. And few houses are unadorned especially with discount fire blankets. But in the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the fire extinguisher, will the result defeat the overriding intention? After all, fire extinguishers are meant to serve a simple purpose: equipping people with a means to extinguish fires. As we see them more and more, and grow used to being always around one, will we ultimately forget their very existence? Will we, in a word, grow fire-extinguisher “blind,” and in the process, panic and flee in situations where fire demands we find them and discharge their contents? That is to say, will we ultimately become so acquainted with them in our environments that we’ll give them so little thought as to miss them when we need them?