Special · Foam
Sprays a thick cone of foam that blinds pedestrians and slowly damages them at point-blank range. Pulled from fire trucks and useful in the firefighter side-mission for putting out burning cars.
The Fire Extinguisher is a canister weapon featured in as an usable weapon, in as a prop and as an unobtainable item in and .
As its name implies, its primary function is to extinguish fires, although it can also be used as a weapon.
The Fire Extinguisher featured in GTA San Andreas is based on the most common real-world type, the stored pressure design. With the exception of certain missions, the fire extinguisher features an ammunition counter, which can be depleted, similarly to weaponry.
In Grand Theft Auto IV, the Fire Extinguisher is only seen as a static prop. They can be found on the walls of some buildings and when shot, will fall to the ground and spray out foam for a short time. This foam does not have any effect on the player. This can only be done once on each fire extinguisher. Fire extinguishers can mostly be found on the corners of The Libertonian, with one spawning on each corner. Some versions will appear with instructions in English and others in Russian, the later one with a variation of the label that reads either "пена" (foam) or "вода" (water).
On the Nintendo DS and PSP versions of , a Fire Extinguisher icon is used to represent the Fire Truck's water cannon "weapon". On the iOS and Android versions, however, there is an H2O icon instead.
The Fire Extinguisher returns once more in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, but cannot be normally used by the player. The fire extinguisher can be seen in the hands of firefighters to extinguish fires. Judging by the effect and the tag, it would be the dry powder variation, since it can be used on electrical fires (something that neither foam or water variations are able to be used on).
Originally, the fire extinguisher was meant to be a usable weapon, but was cut from the final version. The player can still use it if they use a trainer to spawn it. If done, it will be oddly placed in the Thrown slot of the Weapon Wheel. It has no HUD icon and it will have the HUD icon of the most recently selected Thrown slot weapon, such as sharing the HUD icon with the Jerry Can. The fire extinguisher has no first person model.
Like in GTA IV, extinguishers also appear as static props. They can be either a dry chemical or water-based version. When shot, they will spray out water/gas for a short period of time.
