What not to do
Posted By matt on March 16, 2008
Cranesville, NY House Explosion. Our friend Sarah now lives down the street from where this happened.
This happened some years ago, and was supposed to be a live burn training exercise, with a house donated by one of the members of the community. In order to ensure the house went up, flammable liquid (gasoline, kerosene, diesel, etc) was spread around the house. Note that it had been properly gutted and opened up to prevent vapor buildup.
Problem is, the liquids ran into the basement (or were put there in the first place, I forget), where the vapors actually built up. When the ignition officer tossed the road flare in through the basement window…
It is because of accidents like this that we no longer use flammable liquids for training.
Surprisingly, no one was killed or even seriously hurt.
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