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silversand
May 03, 2016Explorer
...the guys were great and they all agreed on two things, the tank was doing what it was supposed to do and that kid at the gas station over filled it.
....same thing happened to me at a local gas station after the attendant filled the BBQ tank. Got the tank home, and as the day heated up, the tank started spewing white clouds. I immediately called the fire dept (located just down our street); thankfully, the tank hadn't been connected to BBQ, so I walked it to our large open lawn, and let it off-gas for ~~3 hours. We have the newer tanks.
The fire station asked what gas station I had it filled at. He said my complaint was the 23rd complaint from that station since summer started.
Now, I have the gas company itself (about 5 miles from us) fill our tanks. They have a very sophisticated computerized system, with digital read-out and commercial digital scale; and, they know what they are doing.
That's a pretty scary thought if that were to happen in a campground.
That could be a potential nightmare scenario: propane (large house-sized tank seen at numerous sites attached to seasonals) at campground explodes, setting off a fire that consumes a campground with units very close together...
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