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WHOA.......

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1LGKieTxY

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Those weren’t oxygen cylinders...

[Blueflag]

Let’s be clear.

OXYGEN neither burns nor explodes. Ever.

Oxygen is the oxidizer (duh) in a fire like this.

Compressed flammable gasses are the fuel here, as well as initially likely the fuel of the truck and the bus it ran into.

REM: I am a former firefighter.

Google BLEVE and Class B fires.

[Kansas58]

Oxygen does NOT burn.
More than likely the cylinders were welding equipment blends of gases.
Oxygen is required for combustion, but if you hold a lit match in a room full of pure oxygen nothing will blow up. You might burn your fingers though as the match would burn very hot and very fast.

[KarlInOhio]

Some of the tanks burned like fuel tanks rather than burning other fuel like oxygen tanks. Dumping oxygen into a fire is a good way to get an explosion but those which were tossed free just outgassed because there was no fuel or ignition source. However at least a couple tanks tossed away from the main fire looked like they were burning on their own.

[from occupied ga]

looks more like acetylene than oxygen

[houeto]

What was that cop thinking?

[sten]

definitely some eye popping goodness.

watched it twice... just as much fun the second time.

if fireworks were more like this, then maybe I’d find them more exciting ;)

+1

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[meatloaf]

Those are low pressure cylinders filled with a flammable gas. Definitely not oxygen cylinders.

[Arrowhead1952]

Several years ago, a bottle plant in the DFW area caught fire and the bottles were taking off like bottle rockets. I forgot how far the farthest one flew, but the video of that was scary.

[Fester Chugabrew]

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