robinjoe: click on Hooligans name... note his past profession.
gas tanks are not designed to explode. They rupture too easily and merely dump out burning gasoline, which is not a day at the beach, but is not KABOOM.
As for cars powered by LNG .... those cylinders scare me.
And Dont Get Me Started on Hydrogen Cars. (Can you say "Hindenberg"?)
(Hooligan: Back in the 70s I was on a CD/Aux PD team and had just enough first responder training to keep from making things worse. My incident scene contribution was usually limited to directing traffic.)
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Fritz, it sounds as if you have had Fire Fighters training. The tires on a vehicle are more dangerous exploding than the gas tank.
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Doesn't it depend on how empty the tank is? My understanding is that a near-empty tank is more likely to explode because of the fumes, which are explosive (whereas the gasoline will just burn).
I would think that a bomb's explosion would be more likely to introduce a spark to the gas-air mixture within the tank than a normal crash.
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