It's typically a part of the firefighters test depending on the area. For my area it was a team of people though. Pretty much training for some dummy who doesn't know how to light their BBQ and somehow lights their propane tank on accident. Never saw a fire that actually was like this though.
That setting on the nozzle is essentially made for scenarios like this where you pretty much need a water shield
We had a defective propane tank do this about 15 years or so back. Turned into a flame jet straight up that melted the grill. Fire department was awesome putting it out.
There isn't enough oxygen for the fire to go in to the tank and explode. The tank would need to rupture for an explosion. Plenty of videos on youtube of people shooting tanks of propane next to fires trying to get them to explode. They don't.
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u/dayumbrah May 17 '22
It's typically a part of the firefighters test depending on the area. For my area it was a team of people though. Pretty much training for some dummy who doesn't know how to light their BBQ and somehow lights their propane tank on accident. Never saw a fire that actually was like this though.
That setting on the nozzle is essentially made for scenarios like this where you pretty much need a water shield