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by bell-cot 198 days ago
99% of the benefit of putting the extinguisher by the exit door is that it helps draw panicking people to the exit door. Which gives them another saving throw against Heroic Idiocy, at +4 - "Should I grab this totally unfamiliar little fire extinguisher and carry it back toward the big scary fire, to do something I've never even tried doing? Or should I just run out the handy exit door that I'm right next to?"