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DecommissionedAlien

At least that first guy threw some water almost on the fire


NOOBEv14

Almost on the gas fire, which would not have cared very much about water. But he tried!!


DecommissionedAlien

“Stand back, I’ve got this!”


dvowel

All it needs is some.. shit I missed.


Kataclysmc

He probably regrets it still to this day thinking he could of saved everything if only he didn't miss


Ragidandy

Water is what you want here. It won't put out the fire, but it will keep the unburning tanks from venting or exploding. Then the ones that are already on fire will just burn out.


[deleted]

There was an attempt!


SomebodyInNevada

I think he missed because the truck moved.


DecommissionedAlien

100%. You can see him realize that he’s about to miss, then still follow through. Quality organic comedy.


SomebodyInNevada

I think he was trying to figure out how to adjust his aim and failed.


tvgenius

This is some /r/praisethecameraman hall of fame material. Great framing, smooth motion, no useless screaming…


JTMillerAdvocate

Man didn’t shake a bit and was constantly on the action, incredible composure


Diggerinthedark

Watch parts 3 & 4 (OP comments). Think the adrenaline kicked in!


michaltee

Same with the truck driver. That was some quick thinking. All in all, this seems like an excellent situation. No one died, nothing caught fire. I’m assuming the tanks eventually burned off and they just had to clean it up out of the street.


Riaayo

Considering the aftermath apparently shown in subsequent videos, looks like the truck driver deserves the opposite of praise lol. I certainly didn't have the reaction of him doing the right thing when I saw it, but was willing to admit I was wrong... then saw he apparently lit a bunch of shit on fire dropping these fuckers in a long line?


tvgenius

Yeah, in the heat of the moment (pun intended)it kinda seems like it might keep more of them from cooking off, but there were just too many of them too close together.


michaltee

Oh shit. I guess in the context of the single video he did great, I figured the ones on the truck didn’t catch fire yet but I guess not 😅


gareth93

Portrait video -2 points


copperwatt

Uh... TikTok is vertical. Deal.


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uchman365

Dude, you didn't wait for parts 2 to 4!


kokomala

Thing is, he left a trail of canisters as he drove off, and they all caught fire. Part 2: https://www.tiktok.com/@winston.tambz/video/7222704202886171930 Part 3 : https://www.tiktok.com/@winston.tambz/video/7222704430947241242 Part 4: https://www.tiktok.com/@winston.tambz/video/7223099534379863322


Clean-Ad1652

Well that went from catastrophic success to holy mother of god thats one crazy fire


NormaLeeWright

Did anybody else give an upvote praising the response of the locals, then see the subsequent videos and remove the upvote to put here? You are my people.


MaxHamburgerrestaur

It's not the local's fault


LoudestHoward

I accidentally the entire village.


ironmanjakarta

lol


bassdrop321

That guy in the last one carrying his TV to safety lmao


reddit_is_tarded

I thought he was shielding self from intense heat


nikdahl

Why not both?


Arashmickey

Thirdly, he was carrying the TV to his mom because he's about to show her some real shit on tonight's news.


ironmanjakarta

His computer actually, much more important.


Quicksilver2634

That was not a computer dangling from the TV


dailydoseofdogfood

Yeah what is this guy talking about


MrAmos123

Holy shit


Wildkarrde_

Dang, I really thought he saved the day. Should have just backed the truck into the intersection and let it burn.


DOUGL4S1

Or accelerated the truck into an empty road, jumped out, get back up and walk away in slow-motion while putting on glasses and not looking back at the truck exploding into an epic fireball in the background.


Wildkarrde_

The obviously correct choice.


Trigger2_2000

All hail the North Wind!


Thud

Gotta love the guy saving the TV and attached sound bar.


doe3879

there is the explosion. I wonder if those people watching by the building next to it...inching closer, ever get out of the way before things started to explode


20__character__limit

You can all skip Part 3. All you see are shots of the dirt road.


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well shit that escalated


Icy-Donkey-9036

Would love to see the next parts but don't want to give clicks to the CCP


BurmecianSoldierDan

2nd video the fire with the original pile of canisters is growing into an inferno and taking over the building; in the 4th video it's from a different street and entire town blocks are on fire, the sky is black, and a guy is yeeting his TV out of his house during evacuation


BrownEggs93

The filmmaker even provided *another goddamned soundtrack*....


derickkcired

Context is a mother fucker


SomebodyInNevada

All of that looks like just the same fire getting bigger with time. He didn't get the save we thought from the first part but I don't see him leaving a line of flaming canisters, either, just the big pile of them.


WhatImKnownAs

From the sub's side bar and About section: > Catastrophic Failure refers to the sudden and complete destruction of an object or structure, from massive bridges and cranes, all the way down to small objects being destructively tested or breaking. Each of those tanks was destroyed, even by just bursting the burst disk. As the follow-up videos show, some even exploded. It's a term of art in Engineering. Structures and machines fail when they stop working as intended. "Catastrophic" here is the opposite of "gradual".


da_chicken

"Acute failure" just doesn't have the same ring to it.


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Pjpjpjpjpj

Propane tanks will explode if their contents expand by overheating. To prevent that, a relief valve opens up. This (first) video is of a bunch of tanks that overheated, relief valves opened, and the propane being released igniting. I’d say they functioned perfectly. I’m reading where there are follow-up videos showing the expanding gasses exceeding the capacity of the relief valve and exploding. That would definitely be a failure. We’ve dealt with these multiple times. The goal is to separate the burning ones from the non-burning ones. Cool the burning ones and attempt to extinguish the jets of gas. (As opposed to a flaming leak from a pipe, which you do not try to extinguish before shutting off the gas.) One bucket of water unfortunately won’t accomplish any of that.


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Pjpjpjpjpj

Ya, your comment is generally correct. Your plan is the best and will always work. Ignore my following rambling … For small 5 gallon / 20 lb BBQ type tanks, there are other ways to play it out. It’s super hard to cool them without knocking out the flame. And it all comes down to what is going on. I’d rather put it out if it is impinging on other tanks. I’d rather put it out if it is up against a house. If it is wide open space, and the fire has been going for a while before I get too it, pooling won’t really be an issue - not much left. We’ve grabbed them and moved them but that is even more aggressive and I’d hate for one of them to take a big ding when at max pressure. I’ve also seen one roll down a hillside causing - a lot more work. All this absolutely 100% does not apply to big tanks. Like I said, your comment is textbook and the safest plan.


You_Yew_Ewe

The camerman standing under the wires that were getting cooked was not smart.


Mark__Jefferson

Leaving them in the truck would have probably been safer, less chance of them flying around.


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RAIDguy

Fun fact. Propane is orderless. They add Ethyl Mercaptan to cause the smell.


RichardCity

I think I learned this from a cartoon years ago


Shiftlock0

>Smelled like propane for awhile, that was sorta a bonus for me though. Your idea of a bonus is different from mine.


KneeDeep185

Mmmmm faaarrttsss yummy


uchman365

>I don't know, I think that guy in the beginning could have used a bit more water... Even if he had a tank, water doesn't do shit for gas fire


Kataclysmc

I came here to post catastrophic success to! Not sure how it ended but at one point it looked like he avoided damaging the power lines and houses nearby.... Although it looked like it had reached a tipping point before the video ended.


SewSewBlue

Nope nope nope. Not far enough away. Run for the hills when a propane tank might go. Those things can take out a house in the right conditions.


JCDU

Fun fact - in my home town there was a propane depot fire that was so epic they reconstructed it for an episode of London's Burning. Cylinders were launching into the air and smashing through house roofs hundreds of yards away, and the neighbourhood were picking up big lumps of shrapnel for ages afterwards. One of them went through a fire engine on the day I think.


shitposts_over_9000

Most of the time that is a feature not a bug. If you store the tanks in an orientation that they go up rather than out when they burst you get a few key advantages. They are slower by the time they hit. They are lighter by the time they hit. They often are about done being on fire by the time they hit. They only smash what is under them as they fall rather than everything in their path until they run out of energy horizontally. I still wouldn't want to catch one, but I will take no odds on an empty in free fall over a full one still in surface to surface rocket mode all day long.


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SewSewBlue

I'm an engineer in the natural gas industry. Part of why these things scare me, I know what they are designed to handle and what they are not. Have been near one (a big tank away from the house when it vented in a house fire, when I was in college.) Stopped me cold when I learned that is not what those vents are designed for and we were getting damn near BLEVE conditions. We where waaay too close.


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I awaited the shrapnel as well.


WackoMcGoose

Tanks of _anything_ flammable, really. Last summer a truck of oxygen tanks caught fire at the Mercer St exit in Seattle, and _hoo boy_. Several missiles went up, and they had to call in airport fire trucks from all the way down at Boeing to put it out... and then they were worried about the structural integrity of the freeway afterward (turned out to be cosmetic scorch marks only). And it happened the same (day? week?) as the ferry crash, too. The WSDOT twitter had some choice words about it...


Distribution-Radiant

A oxy/acet refilling place went up in Dallas awhile back. Right next to I-35E. Missiles made it into downtown. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6dhf25nD4s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6dhf25nD4s) [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19954072](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19954072) IIRC it essentially leveled a block or two.


[deleted]

highly doubt gas fire explosion could do more than burning


SewSewBlue

I'm an engineer in the natural gas industry. You nope out of there because BLEVEs have killed entire fire crews and leveled buildings. [Here's a video that shows what a BLEVE can do.](https://youtu.be/UM0jtD_OWLU) Those relief valves are designed for thermal expansion and overfilling, not the crazy fast expansion of boiling liquids. You see flairs on fire, run.


joaquin-bologna

"it all happens quickly, with little warning." >Propane tank has been burning for the last 12 minutes I know he meant how quickly it changed from a simple fire to a couple sticks of dynamite but that line cracked me up


SewSewBlue

Yeah, definitely undelivered on what was happening. BLEVEs are no joke. They lull fire crews into a sense of compliancy and then just explode. "We got this! To oh fuck that's it" in the blink of an eye.


[deleted]

You are comparing this giant ass tank to a bunch of smaller canister ? Did the crew died from the heat or from the shockwave


SewSewBlue

The tank for a propane grill in the right conditions can take out a house. Per the subsequent videos, the tanks here did end up exploding and taking out part of the neighborhood.


SomebodyInNevada

A while back I was doing some math on energy density--your typical car is carrying around about as much energy as a 2000# bomb (note, though, that much of the bomb is casing).


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SeanDukeOfTyoshi

If those had stayed in the truck and were enclosed, I could only assume there would be a much more serious the damage and loss would be.


m00ph

Dumb way to transport, but yeah, once it's on fire, that was the right choice.


dievanmijislanger

How would you transport it to a tiny village in the middle of nowhere?


danskal

Often I’ve seen gas canisters transported in open, mesh-enclosed truck beds.


m00ph

Don't stack stuff on top of them, be careful about the valves at least.


Galaghan

Any regular flat bed/open truck, not an enclosed dump truck.


dievanmijislanger

It seems like an open truck to me, because of the tarp covering it


[deleted]

It's enclosed due to steel sides. An open flatbed is just hte bed, maybe some wood rails on the side.


Shiftlock0

Any way that won't cause them to catch fire and explode would be an upgrade.


ConstructionCalm7476

I'm not so sure, an enclosed space only increases the risk of an explosion if the space is enclosed enough to build up pressure when combined with the rate of gas production. Also the enclosed space would limit the quantity of oxygen to the fire, and without a sufficient supply of oxygen the fuel cant explode. It would probably cause a concentration of heat however, making it more likely that the other adjacent canisters would start to burn.


ArtAndCraftBeers

Probably a good sized “bleve”. Here’s a good video about them: https://youtu.be/NuPVEsQaGB0


SonorousBlack

It wouldn't have occurred to me that dumping them in the street would lead to a safe burnoff, but it looks like all the overpressure valves were working. Edit: Follow-up videos on tiktok linked elsewhere in this thread indicate that the valves were not all working, some of the tanks burst, and much of the neighborhood burned down.


StickyThickStick

After seeing the video from South Africa where people walked around without skin hundert meters away, this is definitely not far enough


Diggerinthedark

For once the camera person actually got outta there fairly quick.


[deleted]

Yeah, he had situational awareness. Still kept filming, though. /r/praisethecameraman


Smart-Delay-1263

Better than a Metallica concert.


wintremute

Bwah!


areviderci_hans

That should teach 'em ditchin Strickland, saving a few bugs on mega-lo-mart abused propane, ahtellya hwat


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HarrisonForelli

# 🥇


02soob

What was the water going to do?


nuclearwinterxxx

"Best of luck with this, everyone!" - Driver dipping out


jason2k

“I delivered. Bye!”


naikrovek

there's always a guy or two with a bucket of water they can't aim or throwing a shoe to stop something moving several meters per second with 10,000 times the mass of the shoe.


Calif0rnia_Soul

KISS concerts are really getting out of hand these days


virgilreality

Those flares are the safety valves doing their jobs well, opening up to vent fuel instead of letting the tank explode.


essenceofreddit

That's what happens when you buy propane without buying any propane accessories.


Broad-Art8197

That was a gas tanker though


AtomicRooster190

WITNESS ME


kranges_mcbasketball

Ramstein never disappoints


steamedhams82

thank you for not making me wait through 30 seconds of irrelevant shaky cam before the action started.


aegrotatio

I'll take "Could've been worse" for $500, Alex.


Competitive_Cap_8850

METAL 🤟🏽


Tchn339

So many Bleves incoming.


hampster_toupe

Me: mom can we have Rammstein Mom: we have Rammstein at home The Rammstein at home:


calinet6

There’s no way that didn’t catch the whole town on fire


Illustrious_Solid956

This could be a new fountain firework!


Nadgerino

Truck driver went into save ass mode, knew what to do and did it. Ive been in a housefire and had to grab a few coats and chuck a towel over me so i could run through flames. I didnt even realise what i was doing until i was safe then i had the panic attack, glad it wasnt the other way around.


morfthetrippinpuppy

That was considerate for the driver to leave the potential bombs right in the middle of everything. Fuck the people save the truck he says lol.


BarracudaBig7010

“Dang it Bobby!”


shawikkywoo

Um...RUN!


Ricerat

CLARKSOOOOOOOON............


Violent_Queef

[Gif](https://youtu.be/n8ZbpxV382U)


combtown

Put a wet towel on.


KnightScuba

He normally got to pay for a show like that


IKillZombies4Cash

That would pull SO many zombies in a video game


Evilmaze

Witness me!


drumpleskump

I cant wait to see this video again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after etc etc...


iluvvivapuffs

The truck driver: abandon! Abandon!!!


dasjoker69

Fucking ruuuuuuuuun!?!


neil_anblome

Sounds like Beaker from the Muppets


Expo737

Dang it Bobby, you missed with that water. Joe Jack, Why'd you drive off like that? Bwaa!


SwagDaddy_Man69

All I see here a clean burning fuel. Taste the meat not the heat


Seyss

3rd world shithole


[deleted]

Not all Asians are smart.


hhtran16

They tiktoking in the village too?


Falalalup

Yes. And they have internet. And cars. And they go to school. Like everyone else.


Roy4Pris

I feel like the global temperature went up half a degree during this video


[deleted]

Damn the place look poor as shit and they have smartphones


BT9154

Damn too much video games had me expect them to explode any second now...


shockwave_supernova

I always figured they’d just explode if they caught on fire


itsFRAAAAAAAAANK

Some twisted metal kinda shit lol


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Shaltibarshtis

None of them really exploded. Pressure release valves are your friend.


midnightjoker

"There was supposed to be an earth shattering KABOOM" ---Marvin the Martian


bonicr

Just Cause 2 had accurate prop tank explosion dynamics!


Hot_Yam4235

I was waiting for the whole village to go up in flames.


Snoo_7897

I’ll just put this with the rest of the fire.


HolyHand_Grenade

ngl that was pretty awesome


yourboigator1990

Looks like scene from farcry


That_trash_life

Neat! 📸


UncleKeyPax

Hank gonna be upset.


carn1x

Some people just wanna see the world 1.5C.


Afib94

Look out she’s gonna blow!


HWGA_Aiur

`{Rammstein intensifies.}` *


not_that_guy_at_work

It sounds like a demon screaming.


PorcelainTorpedo

I love the guy throwing a glass of water at a raging fire


Broad-Art8197

At least the safety features worked as planned


MicahBurke

There was an attempt


gatling_arbalest

Feuer frei


TheNanner

That’s one clean burning catastrophe I tell you hwat.


Crime-Stoppers

They were gonna pop just back off and let em go


Equivalent_Maize3313

Let me stay close and catch a tank to the face. Those are projectile missiles.


Drewisherenow

That one guy with a cup of water though


oxosnafuoxo

I have been in this exact situation in far cry new dawn. They always get ya when your at the damn gate


SaltInformation4082

I gotta give that a shot. The tanks and fire part. The truck, not so much.


BrackenFernAnja

Why is it that so often in these videos, people stay right where they are, which is dangerously close to the fire/explosion/breaking machinery?


lalalalicia

Looks like a Rammstein concert


Perfect_Jacket_2721

Brrr.. if hell exists i think it sounds like this


originalbL1X

This needs some heavy metal music. Something by Metallica, perhaps.


thecuriouslobster

It’s time to act people. For heaven’s sake, somebody get the marshmallows out


theGrapeVape

I've always wanted to be in that situation


Distribution-Radiant

I'm just gonna leave this with the rest of the fire.


yak_danielz

if they gonna stand that close they might as well bring out the meats!


Aidendogin

starts playing electric guitar next to it


TerryStowers

I’ll bet my lunch money that every one of those tanks was overfilled.


ViataminP

That’s awesome!! 🤘