TwelveGaugeSage
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- Jason
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I dunno about all that. Hollywood of course dramatizes it, but as a former firefighter/fire science major and current worker in the fuels logistics industry, they can and do occasionally explode(often a BLEVE). I was taking a diesel receipt from a tanker a few months ago and the driver was showing me pictures from his truck hauling gasoline that had a wheel bearing catch fire eventually taking the whole tank of 10,000 gallons of gasoline with it.Cars don't explode. That's Hollywood silliness.
This one looks like it probably had a whole tank of gas that dropped out suddenly and quickly during the fire:
And this one they said airbags, but my money is on the batteries going BLEVE.
Of course, catastrophic ones like that first one are pretty rare, and in OPs case, the fire wasn't near the fuel tank, so while a battery exploding is possible, turning into a fuel air bomb wasn't too likely, lol.
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