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If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by backT(op): 8:48pm On Sep 30, 2020
When you are in the kitchen cooking or doing what you know how to do best, and suddenly things just gets out of control with the gas cylinder or you start to notice an abnormal flame pattern with the burner and before you could detect the fault, there is fire outbreak
The cylinder is about to burn, and you have been hearing how gas explosion kills people in seconds, out of fear of not wanting to die. Most people who are not knowledgeable enough in this area, do the first thing their brain tells you them to do, which is to pour water on the fire.

Off course, water is a good solution for fire, its not a bad idea to pour water on fire, but it's a bad decision to pour water on a gas cylinder that has caught fire. its a really bad idea to pour water on that type of fire! Just incase you don't know, there are five classes of fire and each has a different way of putting it off.

This includes our regular fire which occurs with wood, plastics and other solid stuff and water is the best remedy for it.
This is the main focus here, it involves combustible liquids and gases, and water is definitely a bad idea with this type of fire, not to forget that we also have class-C, class-D and class-Ktypes, but we won't get to that yet. So if water is not the best idea on stopping this type of fire, then what can you do to manage the situation?
First of all, manage your anxiety and fear, try not to panic, that's the first and most important step to managing it. Then you need to hurry up and put a large-enough cloth inside a bucket of water, let the cloth soak, then use it to cover the source of the fire. Make sure to spread the wet cloth over the area where the fire is coming from, then turn off the cylinder and leave the area for a while.

Don't ever try to pour water directly over the fire as this will cause a wider spread. Your biggest challenge in doing this, is your own fear, fear can make you do the wrong thing, you don't want to be at the mercy of your gas cylinder.
First of all, manage your anxiety and fear, try not to panic, that's the first and most important step to managing it. Then you need to hurry up and put a large-enough cloth inside a bucket of water, let the cloth soak, then use it to cover the source of the fire. Make sure to spread the wet cloth over the area where the fire is coming from, then turn off the cylinder and leave the area for a while.

Mod help a soul

Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by illicit(m): 9:14pm On Sep 30, 2020
Don't panic
Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by Vision4God: 9:37pm On Sep 30, 2020
Educative. Thanks op
Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by Nobody: 9:48pm On Sep 30, 2020
One thing i've learnt about life is that, evil only exist in imaginations, and the evil men does is as a result of their proactive deceitful mind.

If you are not evil, you don't have the right to believe that something is evil or someone else will harm you.
it all started with you, start believing, you will have no reason to be afraid of anything, fear (based on personal experience) like any other thing in creation never exist, but in the human imagination.

Back to the topic, kill fear and you will have dominion over every work of creation.
Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by heendrix(m): 9:52pm On Sep 30, 2020
make brain
Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by ugbede69(m): 11:53pm On Sep 30, 2020
Akamariner:
One thing i've learnt about life is that, evil only exist in imaginations, and the evil men does is as a result of their proactive deceitful mind.

If you are not evil, you don't have the right to believe that something is evil or someone else will harm you.
it all started with you, start believing, you will have no reason to be afraid of anything, fear (based on personal experience) like any other thing in creation never exist, but in the human imagination.

Back to the topic, kill fear and you will have dominion over every work of creation.
well said sir
Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by backT(op): 4:32am On Oct 01, 2020
Vision4God:
Educative. Thanks op
Welcome
Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by RuggedSniper: 9:24pm On Oct 09, 2020
backT:
When you are in the kitchen cooking or doing what you know how to do best, and suddenly things just gets out of control with the gas cylinder or you start to notice an abnormal flame pattern with the burner and before you could detect the fault, there is fire outbreak
The cylinder is about to burn, and you have been hearing how gas explosion kills people in seconds, out of fear of not wanting to die. Most people who are not knowledgeable enough in this area, do the first thing their brain tells you them to do, which is to pour water on the fire.

Off course, water is a good solution for fire, its not a bad idea to pour water on fire, but it's a bad decision to pour water on a gas cylinder that has caught fire. its a really bad idea to pour water on that type of fire! Just incase you don't know, there are five classes of fire and each has a different way of putting it off.

This includes our regular fire which occurs with wood, plastics and other solid stuff and water is the best remedy for it.
This is the main focus here, it involves combustible liquids and gases, and water is definitely a bad idea with this type of fire, not to forget that we also have class-C, class-D and class-Ktypes, but we won't get to that yet. So if water is not the best idea on stopping this type of fire, then what can you do to manage the situation?
First of all, manage your anxiety and fear, try not to panic, that's the first and most important step to managing it. Then you need to hurry up and put a large-enough cloth inside a bucket of water, let the cloth soak, then use it to cover the source of the fire. Make sure to spread the wet cloth over the area where the fire is coming from, then turn off the cylinder and leave the area for a while.

Don't ever try to pour water directly over the fire as this will cause a wider spread. Your biggest challenge in doing this, is your own fear, fear can make you do the wrong thing, you don't want to be at the mercy of your gas cylinder.
First of all, manage your anxiety and fear, try not to panic, that's the first and most important step to managing it. Then you need to hurry up and put a large-enough cloth inside a bucket of water, let the cloth soak, then use it to cover the source of the fire. Make sure to spread the wet cloth over the area where the fire is coming from, then turn off the cylinder and leave the area for a while.

Mod help a soul
^^^Very insightful!grin

Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by TheSPEAKER(m): 4:49pm On Mar 23, 2025
Thanks op. This is 23/03/2025.
Re: If Your Gas Cylinder Is On Fire, Don't Ever Pour Water On It. Instead Do This. ( by Myrepublic(m): 6:04pm On Mar 23, 2025
Good one op,thanks for the info . But what about putting detergent in water ? Someone was saying it helps in controlling fire outbreak too. Is it true?
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