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WTF Are People Saying
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I used to have a part time job pumping gas in high school. One of my regular customers INSISTED upon smoking at the service island. He used to tell me that gasoline never exploded, it just burned really, really fast. I guess he was right. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the guy in that photo.
I think I’d be heading for those hills really fast, man.
thats what i call a fire truck! BWAH HAHAHAHAHA
well this is dumb >.>
oh and gas does’t explode, gas vapour do
this is more fail than wtf. oh well.
gas truck fail
gas explosion fail
safety fail (it looks like he is directing traffic around it…)
It looks a lot like miniature lava… or something like that.
Run to the hills
Run for your lives
was that iron maiden i just heard? woa man, pump the brakes there.
I’d be very surprised if the tanker didn’t explode in the following second.
How’d the camera make it out of there in one piece?
Looking kinda shoppy to me .. Seems like as soon as the fuel level in the tanker got below the level of the hole, it would a) stop pouring out and b) allow the vapor above the remaining fuel to go boom. (See axborn’s comment above.)
Unless it’s not gasoline it could be something that instantly ignites when mixed with air. In which case it wouldn’t necessarily explode but the second it got below that hole that truck would be a nice fireball.
Dude. That’s some !*©%ed up $#*! right there.
Dang, talk about having to take a burning pee.
The guy is gonna die!
Hmmmm. . . No, no danger of an explosion. Toxic fumes maybe but no explosion.
B.L.E.V.E.s happen when a container like that is in a fire and the pressure of the boiling liquid inside causes the rupture, and thus explosion. This rupture was apparently there when the fuel caught fire(the fire probably caused by whatever caused the hole). These tanks are well-built and a BLEVE is about the only thing that will cause one of these to explode.
So, even if oxygen got in through the hole, it would result in a series of small explosions as flames burst back out of the hole. The series of what amounts to little more than flaming truck farts would do little, if any, additional damage to the tank and pose little threat other than the possibility of knocking it over into the other lane. Letting it bleed out is a good idea when you have no extinguisher handy. The two guys and the passing truck are in little danger.
Given the side of the trailer that the flames are coming out, and the colour of the cloud indicating diesel rather than gas, the people driving around it are fairly safe. . . Still they should’ve stopped traffic until either the thing burned out or was properly contained.
As a former FF, I say WTF and LOL to their letting traffic by, but meh to the overall WTF score.
@taitano
Sorry. I just had four large cups of coffee and was reading one of my old FF textbooks and my old EMT textbook and the info was fresh in mind. I got carried away with the typing. . . Hope it was informative.
. . . On second thought. . . That is a BLEVE by definition, so, that’s about as big as that fire’s gonna get. Sorry.
Why did my make me go google bleve?
For the benefit of those without FF training: “BLEVE is an acronym for boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion”.
He’s Superman and his cape will protect him!
@taitano
Wow, four large cups of coffee in a row … Bet you had something that felt like this picture out of one orifice or another …
thats so cool, I wish I had been there
Holy crap dude… four cups? I just used to get NoDoze when I was at uni.
@taitano
Thanks for the info!
If this happened in America everything in a 2 miles radius would be evacuated. These guys are just like, “go around, we’ve got this under control.” ………….BOOM!!…………… dead.
@Sheriff of Nottingham
Not because of the explosion. Believe it or not, that stream of flaming fuel coming out is preventing an explosion by relieving pressure. The reason for the evac in this case is because of the fumes, not the flames.
And it’s one mile – or the nearest intersection after that – upwind of the site, and three miles past the visible smoke/measurable fumes downwind from the site – or the next intersection beyond that. This may be increased or decreased to the legal min/max at the discretion of the Fire Marshal and Police Commissioner.
Those two in the picture are either morons or the drivers of that truck(and therefore unable or not knowing what more to do).
must be a biblical thing. The truck was on fire but didn’t burn. xD
Mental – waht with the price of fuel and everything
I wonder what Maersk corporation thinks about having their shipping container so close to judgement day on wheels there….
“Alright people, move along. Nothing to see here.”
Best. Comment. Ever.
Hey sir you want see magic trick? look I make this truck disappear in 3.. 2..
FOR ALLAH… KABANG!!!
I’d tap that.
take that, terrorism!
Burns when you pee you say?
looks more like a tank of molten iron… o_O
“it comes in pints? im getting one!”
Of COURSE you can transport fire!!! They decided to experiment after they learned how to transport a giant elephant from a helicopter and decided… pff… transporting fire will be a cakewalk.
That is what happens when you hold it in too long or drink hot sauce.
You:Ok guys, I’ll be right with you, I gotta wizz.
Guys:Alright!
You:*zip FWOOOSH* HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…