Aren’t you supposed to pour the gas BEFORE you light the fire? And what prevents things from going ka-boom in the barrel if you light gasoline-soaked fuel in a barrel?
I weep for your deprived childhood! Did you not practice the flaming arrow thing? Goes KABOOM, you are 25 yards up wind .... hopefully. Jolly fun.
My epic trick one dark and stormy night: pouring gasoline ... rather a lot ... into a ancient hollow walnut tree infested with giant green hornets. Stepping off a few yards, I launched ye olde flaming arrow. You wanna talk KABOOM? Suddenly the night sky was filled with flaming kamikazi hornets making for the cedar-shingled house and barn roofs. Spectacular, really. Bloody tree burned for days, as did my posterior. Blaming it on my sister did not work.
She may be suing me for defamation, but since this happened in '57, Algonquin J. Calhoun, Esq., my infallible guide in all things legal, has advised me to forget about it.