Turn off propane at gas stations - DO YOU?
Hi. I have read that you should close the propane tank when entering the gas station but some people have said they do not. We will have ours on for the fridge. We are driving our first long trip (7...
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ryanw821 wrote:A "little bit of gasoline" and "30-feet away" WOW!! That sounds like a stretch.Jay Pat wrote:
I don't. My propane burning gizmos are about 15-20 feet behind my pickup and out from under the canopy.
Pat
I have watched someone get some pretty bad burns walking up to a brush pile that he had soaked in a little bit of gasoline, his propane torch set the whole works off from about 30 feet away as he was walking up to it, gasoline vapors can spread quickly.
Fill up with an ignition source on and this can be you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f4lPzxSm5A
EDIT: I should note ^^^ this idiot ^^^ got off lucky, it could have been much worse
