Of course oxygen doesn’t burn, BUT it increases the burn rate of any fuel by logarithmic numbers......
Just use a leaf blower on a leaf fire, and you’ll see an example. You’re adding oxygen, not fuel.
Oxygen is part of the combustion process, and to make any fuel burn faster - add oxygen. Adding oxygen will increase the burn rate many times more than adding fuel.
So, these could have been oxygen cylinders.
I think it was the engineering department of Purdue which had competitions to quickly light a grill full of charcoal at their annual picnic. The competition was cancelled after they used charcoal, a lit cigarette for ignition and a container of liquid oxygen: the grill disappeared in the resulting fire.
No, not really. Look at the video again. You’ll see sevaral times some tanks with pressurized flames shooting out of their tops. Those are tanks where the valves at the top have failed due to pressure build up and heat.
The big balls of flame occur from explosions of suddenly released gas from tanks that have failed.
Truly - no harm no foul - go read about BLEVE.
Most likely there were some ‘oxygen’ tanks on that truck - as oxyacetylene sets.
But as someone who has attacked some pretty interesting and intense Class A/ B/ D fires in vehicle wrecks, I can assure you, oxygen tanks weren’t my big concern.
Those explosions you saw were typical to a gas release into a normal atmosphere.
I can’t read Russian, and the video was too blurry to read the labels and colors on the tanks as the truck passed the car, but ... that was by far primarily first a burning fuel fire (class B) followed by a BLEVE (special Class B fire)with maybe a little Class D and surely Class A thrown in for fun.
As I watched the video, what I saw was NOT any “detonations” of the taller, industrial gas cylinders (that RARELY happens) and the debris flying was from what looked like bit and pieces of truck - plus some cylinders flying in the air. THAT is all normal.
Ya gotta let it go. The title is misleading to anyone who has ever put on turnout gear.
If ya don’t know what turnout gear is, and why you never wear polyester T-shirts, then you probably should go with me here ;-)