Dakzuki wrote:
hmknightnc wrote:
CloudDriver wrote:
News article from 2010
That's the first actual account of that potentially happening I have ever heard of. But the firechief and station owner aren't completely convinced it happened that way. This is also a motorhome with the fridge vent apparently right next to the gas tank fill (stupid design) and even then it took another event (hose spilling gas) to maybe cause this to happen. Certainly adds some credibility to the urban legend but really sounds more like a freak accident than anything likely to happen.
That's the main vehicle for a gas station fire....spillage which gets a lot of evaporated gasoline into the air.
I've never heard of a cigarette starting a fire at the pumps but you are not supposed to smoke there either. I have seen people smoking at gas pumps too....nobody blew up.
It will only take once to make them regret that stupidity. I've seen them smoke at pumps too and I can't bite my tongue. I let them know to get away from me.
A buddy of mine decided to use gasoline to help start a brush pile on fire once. He ringed the pile with gas (which was about 5 years old in a jug). He then dumped a stream of it out about 30 feet from the pile. Before he could light the match and drop it, the fumes ignited and the pile was ablaze. Gas is nothing to mess with near fire.
