Fire came out of my water faucet in my camp trailer
Went camping last weekend, last time I used my 2010 KZ was in July, 3.5 months ago. After that trip I drained all the water, including hot water tank, and left the low point drain open.
On this trip I plugged into city water at a NV state park. I could hear it gurgling as it filled the hot water tank so I opened the hot water faucet to relieve some pressure. When I did this the water pushed out in spurts, which is about normal as the air is displaced from the hot water tank.
Ok, so now here is what's weird. I turned down the hot water faucet to allow less water/air pressure to escape and to keep the water from splashing out on the kitchen counter due to the pressure. At one point, after say less than a minute of having connected to city water, a gas (as in gaseous looking vapor) came out of the water faucet.
I laughed and presuming it was water vapor told my wife it looked like fog. She said it looked like gas and me being the smart ass grabbed a lighter and imagine my surprise when it caught on fire!
I stared at my wife who was big eyed and it instantly occurred to me that the flame had gone INSIDE the faucet and I quickly opened up the hot water faucet all the way and the sudden blast of water pushed a ball of fire about the size of a my thumb out of the end of the faucet.
No, I'm not making this up.
I've never heard of/seen anything like this. Any thoughts? If I hadn't turned up the water flow and pushed out the flame would it have gone into my hot water tank and exploded, killing me and my wife?
More details:
- Propane was turned off for 3 months.
- No smell, no odor when I lit the vapor.
- Later the hot water did not have any smell either.
- The low-point drain was open the whole 3 months since last use.
- The anode rod is perhaps 3/4 used up, it's about 1 year old.
- I flushed the tank 1 year ago when installing the anode rod
On this trip I plugged into city water at a NV state park. I could hear it gurgling as it filled the hot water tank so I opened the hot water faucet to relieve some pressure. When I did this the water pushed out in spurts, which is about normal as the air is displaced from the hot water tank.
Ok, so now here is what's weird. I turned down the hot water faucet to allow less water/air pressure to escape and to keep the water from splashing out on the kitchen counter due to the pressure. At one point, after say less than a minute of having connected to city water, a gas (as in gaseous looking vapor) came out of the water faucet.
I laughed and presuming it was water vapor told my wife it looked like fog. She said it looked like gas and me being the smart ass grabbed a lighter and imagine my surprise when it caught on fire!
I stared at my wife who was big eyed and it instantly occurred to me that the flame had gone INSIDE the faucet and I quickly opened up the hot water faucet all the way and the sudden blast of water pushed a ball of fire about the size of a my thumb out of the end of the faucet.
No, I'm not making this up.
I've never heard of/seen anything like this. Any thoughts? If I hadn't turned up the water flow and pushed out the flame would it have gone into my hot water tank and exploded, killing me and my wife?
More details:
- Propane was turned off for 3 months.
- No smell, no odor when I lit the vapor.
- Later the hot water did not have any smell either.
- The low-point drain was open the whole 3 months since last use.
- The anode rod is perhaps 3/4 used up, it's about 1 year old.
- I flushed the tank 1 year ago when installing the anode rod
