Fridge Off While Gassing up
So I recently read a post where a fellow mentioned turning off his refrigerator before filling up at the gas station and turning it back on when finished. I've never done this and never thought it was...
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JaxDad wrote:BB_TX wrote:
Still waiting for someone to post a link to a verifiable story of an RV fridge causing a fire at a service station due to igniting fumes.
There's lots of them, it took me about 10 seconds to find this story, top of a list of them when I searched.
Clicky, Clicky.
Not many people get hit by lightning either, but I'm not going to stand in a field with a metal pole during a storm and find out.
When one sloshes fuel on the RV near the pilot light for the fridge one might expect the spilled fuel it to ignite.
Irwin Binder and his wife, Linda, escaped unharmed with their Yorkshire terrier, Holly. Binder, 73, said the blaze started as he prepared to fill up the Roadtrek recreational vehicle and the nozzle spewed gasoline, igniting when it came into contact with a pilot light on the RV.
