Fire + 200 plus Acetylene Bottles = CRAZY! Dallas Explosion Vid....
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Fire + 200 plus Acetylene Bottles = CRAZY! Dallas Explosion Vid....
http://www.wfaa.com/video/index.html?nvid=161601
http://www.wfaa.com/video/index.html?nvid=161580
I have always wondered......now i wonder no more......and i have a new found respect for compressed gas and fire! WOW!
http://www.wfaa.com/video/index.html?nvid=161580
I have always wondered......now i wonder no more......and i have a new found respect for compressed gas and fire! WOW!
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Glad no one got killed....
If you watch in the 2nd vid....you can see someone spraying the bottles well into the BIG booms.....that guy has bigger ones than me........wow....
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He was lucky they were not handing out Darwin Awards today.....wow....
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That was probably the warehouse foreman. He tried to put it out, and is the most seriously injured. One reason he was trying so hard to put it out......he also lived on the premises.
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I work for a welding supply company, so this hits close to home for me. Thankfully we don't have an acetylene plant, the only flammable gas we fill is propane. Before today, my plan in case of fire was to run - now my plan is to run further. 
Hats off to the guys who stuck around to try to get it under control, that takes a lot of guts.
I don't know what was wrong with the doofus standing outside the fence who walked up to the aceteylene cylinder that dropped out of the sky 10 feet from him. What a moron! It's a shame the thing didn't drop on him and remove him from the gene pool.
Hats off to the guys who stuck around to try to get it under control, that takes a lot of guts.
I don't know what was wrong with the doofus standing outside the fence who walked up to the aceteylene cylinder that dropped out of the sky 10 feet from him. What a moron! It's a shame the thing didn't drop on him and remove him from the gene pool.
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WOW.....well that does explain it and feel sorry for him......House or not......my rear would have been out of there.......If the DFD was not even going in.....i would have cut my losses.......
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A pigtail is a hose that goes from the bottle to the supply line. One of them probably ruptured. At pressures over 15 psi, acetylene can auto-ignite when exposed to air -and that's what happened.
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Hey Dave,
Am I correct in the fact that the FD would just let something like that go? All my HAZ training tells me yes because of the inherent danger of launched bottle landing on a firefighter or an expensive piece of equipment. I could maybe see them dropping water from the air, but that could get dangerous too.
I would just evacuate the area in accordance with the ERG and sit back and watch the carnage.
Am I correct in the fact that the FD would just let something like that go? All my HAZ training tells me yes because of the inherent danger of launched bottle landing on a firefighter or an expensive piece of equipment. I could maybe see them dropping water from the air, but that could get dangerous too.
I would just evacuate the area in accordance with the ERG and sit back and watch the carnage.
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Hey Dave,
Am I correct in the fact that the FD would just let something like that go? All my HAZ training tells me yes because of the inherent danger of launched bottle landing on a firefighter or an expensive piece of equipment. I could maybe see them dropping water from the air, but that could get dangerous too.
I would just evacuate the area in accordance with the ERG and sit back and watch the carnage.
Am I correct in the fact that the FD would just let something like that go? All my HAZ training tells me yes because of the inherent danger of launched bottle landing on a firefighter or an expensive piece of equipment. I could maybe see them dropping water from the air, but that could get dangerous too.
I would just evacuate the area in accordance with the ERG and sit back and watch the carnage.
And Good point Charlie.....
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Hey Dave,
Am I correct in the fact that the FD would just let something like that go? All my HAZ training tells me yes because of the inherent danger of launched bottle landing on a firefighter or an expensive piece of equipment. I could maybe see them dropping water from the air, but that could get dangerous too.
I would just evacuate the area in accordance with the ERG and sit back and watch the carnage.
Am I correct in the fact that the FD would just let something like that go? All my HAZ training tells me yes because of the inherent danger of launched bottle landing on a firefighter or an expensive piece of equipment. I could maybe see them dropping water from the air, but that could get dangerous too.
I would just evacuate the area in accordance with the ERG and sit back and watch the carnage.