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To: Doogle

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.


4 posted on 02/12/2014 7:39:53 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Blueflag

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.


15 posted on 02/12/2014 7:56:17 AM PST by Arlis
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