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DutchmenSport
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Oct 06, 2013

Question? Fueling with Refrigerator or Furnace Running

Just read through some other recent posts, and got me to wondering? Members of RV.net are really divided on keeping the refrigerator running on gas with fueling up. Same goes for the gas furnace. O...
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sdetweil
Explorer
Oct 06, 2013
2oldman wrote:
DutchmenSport wrote:
I'll even accept a news article declaring a fuel station fire was caused by someone running their refrigerator at a fuel station or because of their furnace.
Take that linked article for what it's worth. Lots of speculation.. firemen have never seen that before.


and for us Diesel fueled vehicles, diesel fumes are not combustable like gas. So, you might not cause problems with YOUR rig, but someone elses..

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