Nasty Big Oil Tank Explosion!
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3. PortugaL26 commented 13 years ago
All hell broke loose!
the cameraman got balls.. he really took his time to gtfo of there.
the cameraman got balls.. he really took his time to gtfo of there.
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12. JaeMarie commented 13 years ago
#11 - I didn't suspect that there was any fire inside the tank, but as they mention at 0:25 that excessive heat can cause an explosion.
Years ago I was talking to a firefighter friend of mine, telling him about the house my mother had just purchased. It was a brick home with a VERY narrow walkway in between it and the next house. He mentioned that situations like that were a PITA, because if one house was burning, they had to be sure to keep the neighboring house hosed off to keep the temp down to keep the interior of that from igniting.
Fire needs 3 things. Oxygen, fuel, and heat. Water doesn't just suffocate a fire, but it's also used to bring temperatures down below that of ignition.
Years ago I was talking to a firefighter friend of mine, telling him about the house my mother had just purchased. It was a brick home with a VERY narrow walkway in between it and the next house. He mentioned that situations like that were a PITA, because if one house was burning, they had to be sure to keep the neighboring house hosed off to keep the temp down to keep the interior of that from igniting.
Fire needs 3 things. Oxygen, fuel, and heat. Water doesn't just suffocate a fire, but it's also used to bring temperatures down below that of ignition.
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13. Atkinc088 commented 13 years ago
Using water to cool the tank is correct. If there is an opening in the tank you can hose it down with a special foam used for firefighting to create a layer on the surface of the oil which in turn would extinguish the fire. For that large of a fire however they would need a heck of a lot of foam which more than likely was not readily available. There are usually foam task forces which would be dispatched from all over the county or possibly even the state. That looks to be a very rural area so the nearest additional foam supply could have been hours away.
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14. Slap_chop_ninja commented 13 years ago
Michael Bay approves of this video.
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15. ringmaster commented 13 years ago
I'm sorry, but this belongs in accidents.
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18. mydixiewrecked commented 13 years ago
you know with the word explosion in the video name, i think Marvin the Martian said it best: Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
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20. loadrunner commented 12 years ago
I remember a video of tank like this exploding with a big bang :o
+64 1. Uthar commented 13 years ago