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…you would think that the gas company would supply them.
Why?
If you think you should have one in “your” house- then “you” should go buy one! Why look for a handout!? If you think your life- and the life of others- is in possible peril, it’s up to YOU to make it SAFE!
Every house that uses gas or an oil burner should have carbon monoxide detectors on all levels the house.
They are just as important as smoke alarms, it’s required by code and is the homeowner’s responsibility to have and maintain them.
This is curious as to HOW it blew up. I have seen many many things that blew to methane, and while the structure can most certainly be blown apart, chunks of wood, bricks, stuffed animals etc, you dont typically see a still consuming fireball. You tend to see those with fuel fires where the long chain molecules are not done oxidizing. Methane, oxidizes immediately with heat and a flash, but the fireball is done pretty quickly.
A ring camera caught this explosion and it looked like a fuel depot with dark smoke indicating heavy hydrocarbons or ??? were there secondaries involved? AND the explosion caused others to explode. I can see a row of tightly parked, fueled B24s, but houses?
Curious. Both my homes are fully gas so I sorta take this seriously.
Every house that uses gas or an oil burner should have carbon monoxide detectors on all levels the house.
They are just as important as smoke alarms, it’s required by code and is the homeowner’s responsibility to have and maintain them.
He’s referring to “gas sniffers”-
I have two on my boat-
They are regulated items on boats, campers, etc.- there’s enough regulation as it is; I’ll leave it at that!
This is curious as to HOW it blew up. I have seen many many things that blew to methane, and while the structure can most certainly be blown apart, chunks of wood, bricks, stuffed animals etc, you dont typically see a still consuming fireball. You tend to see those with fuel fires where the long chain molecules are not done oxidizing. Methane, oxidizes immediately with heat and a flash, but the fireball is done pretty quickly.
A ring camera caught this explosion and it looked like a fuel depot with dark smoke indicating heavy hydrocarbons or ??? were there secondaries involved? AND the explosion caused others to explode. I can see a row of tightly parked, fueled B24s, but houses?
Curious. Both my homes are fully gas so I sorta take this seriously.
Yeah, that fireball indicates a secondary source, gasoline or something.
In the great scheme of things these types of incidents with natural gas, or even propane, are orders of magnitude rarer than electrical fires.
One of my neighbors did blow himself up with propane 20 or so years ago. He was cooking some meth up in his shed.
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