What’s up with the brazen idiots smoking at the pumps? I got into with someone today cause he wanted to get out of the car in which his buddy was pumping gas, walk across the pumps and to a friend to talk while wielding a lit cigarette…
I guess some people just don’t get it…
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I’ve come to the believe that most people are stupid. 80-20 rule… But there are those that are just plain idiots…
I hate to tell you this, but you can throw a lit cigarette in an open bucket of gasoline and it’ll just put it out. You are 1000 times more likely to start a fire with a static spark on a cold dry day than with a lit cigarette. That being said, I’m still not going to smoke around the pumps.
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A very good friend’s daughter was very severely burned by a lit cigarette that ignited a 5 gal can of gas while attempting to fill a vehicle. In this case a careless mistake that was devastating. She is still recovering and it was a very long road to where she is now, and very lucky to have survived. I only wish such people could hear her story and they would never do such a dangerous thing.
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Well put, Optiker…
Skinnee, Lol, I haven’t heard that in a long while… Please give us your 80/20 definition.
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Transporting a metal gas can in the back of your pickup that has a plastic bedliner (not the spray in type) The gas can may build up a static charge that, if not removed and placed on the ground to discharge, could discharge, spark, when nozzle touches it.
A link below if interested:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/98-111/
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quote:Drum, if I tell you about this, it is going to change the way you see the world... Most people are just better off not knowing...
Originally posted by DrumReaperWell put, Optiker…
Skinnee, Lol, I haven’t heard that in a long while… Please give us your 80/20 definition.
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Originally posted by tigerfinI hate to tell you this, but you can throw a lit cigarette in an open bucket of gasoline and it’ll just put it out. You are 1000 times more likely to start a fire with a static spark on a cold dry day than with a lit cigarette. That being said, I’m still not going to smoke around the pumps.
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quote:I have seen that done with diesel fuel..not sure about gasoline.
Originally posted by 23Sailfishquote:
Originally posted by tigerfinI hate to tell you this, but you can throw a lit cigarette in an open bucket of gasoline and it’ll just put it out. You are 1000 times more likely to start a fire with a static spark on a cold dry day than with a lit cigarette. That being said, I’m still not going to smoke around the pumps.
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It is the vapors that are flammable. The liquid is not. I have put a cig out in a bucket of gas. You have to make sure no spark happens.
Umm, you gonna eat that?
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Originally posted by jstrangeIt is the vapors that are flammable. The liquid is not. I have put a cig out in a bucket of gas. You have to make sure no spark happens.
Umm, you gonna eat that?
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I used to put out cigs in a 5 gallon bucket with gas in it to show my rookie fireman that it would not explode. In 24 years as a FF I saw about 12 fires from static while filling containers in the back of a Car/Truck. Fires from smoking while pumping…zero.
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Originally posted by skinneejquote:Drum, if I tell you about this, it is going to change the way you see the world... Most people are just better off not knowing...
Originally posted by DrumReaperWell put, Optiker…
Skinnee, Lol, I haven’t heard that in a long while… Please give us your 80/20 definition.
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Originally posted by resq036I used to put out cigs in a 5 gallon bucket with gas in it to show my rookie fireman that it would not explode. In 24 years as a FF I saw about 12 fires from static while filling containers in the back of a Car/Truck. Fires from smoking while pumping…zero.
G. perry pickering
So, you endorse smoking at the pumps?
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I fill plastic gas can in the back of my truck with a plastic bed liner. Guess I should be more careful
quote:
Originally posted by DrumReaperquote:
Originally posted by resq036I used to put out cigs in a 5 gallon bucket with gas in it to show my rookie fireman that it would not explode. In 24 years as a FF I saw about 12 fires from static while filling containers in the back of a Car/Truck. Fires from smoking while pumping…zero.
G. perry pickering
So, you endorse smoking at the pumps?
No. Just stating facts.
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G. perry pickering
quote:I respect that... but should that be the case, why do they place signs at the pump that say "NO SMOKING"? Seems that what they know is contra to your facts?
Originally posted by resq036quote:
Originally posted by DrumReaperquote:
Originally posted by resq036I used to put out cigs in a 5 gallon bucket with gas in it to show my rookie fireman that it would not explode. In 24 years as a FF I saw about 12 fires from static while filling containers in the back of a Car/Truck. Fires from smoking while pumping…zero.
G. perry pickering
So, you endorse smoking at the pumps?
No. Just stating facts.
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G. perry pickering
Seriously, I don’t think this has anything to do with anyone sitting at the pump and tossing lit cigarettes into buckets of gasoline… I think it has more to do with the ignition point of gasoline vapors being lower than that of liquid gasoline… what say ye?
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The spark or flame ignites the vapors that come off gasoline which then ignites the liquid with explosive effects. Because you never had a fire from a cigarette or spark only means that the heat source never happened to come into contact with the volatile vapors.
Most of us know how dangerous it is to throw gas onto a fire, but many kids and adults do not know this. I once did a claim where a kid tried to pour gas onto a burning trash pile and his gas can exploded and caught his pants on fire. By the time the father got to the boy, his skin had melted off of his legs and had fallen down to his ankles like his pair of pants. I did another claim were a grown man threw gas onto a burn pile and he suffered severe burns, so it’s just not kids that does not know that it’s the vapors that ignite and rapidly become volatile and explosive.
Don’t mess with gas. Warn anyone you can.
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Throwing a lit cigarette on a fire is a totally different story then taking a long hard drag on one with fumes in the area.