After seeing so many preventable fires, former firefighter and Larkspur resident Grant Van Der Jagt said enough was enough.
"The trauma of firefighters seeing death, seeing something that was preventable, it haunts you. It's something that lives with you," he said.
Van Der Jagt developed the Fireball. He said the cantaloupe-sized ball is an "airbag for the oven."
He says it can extinguish a fire in seconds.
Van Der Jagt said a group of firefighters worked together in an attempt to find a solution to help prevent common kinds of fires.
The Fireball melts the ball and in seconds it explodes.
“The Fireball shifts the atmospheric pressure. So the fire is further away from its source when it’s hit. Then, it’s smothered with the powder," Van Der Jagt said.