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Posted on 02/05/2026 11:35:29 AM PST by Morgana
This is the moment a bundle of party balloons explode in a fireball engulfing a lift full of people.
The gas-filled balloons suddenly caught fire and blew up just seconds after a man carrying them entered a lift inside a building at Amol Tower, in Goregaon, a suburb of Mumbai, India, on Monday night.
Himani Tapriya, a 21-year-old student, suffered burns on her arms, neck and stomach following the explosion.
Raju Kumar Mahato, 32, a delivery man who was couriering the balloons to the residential building for a birthday party, also suffered burns.
But the pair and a third person in the lift remarkably all escaped without major injury.
CCTV footage shows Ms Tapriya entering the lift with a suitcase before the delivery man walks in with the bundle of balloons.
Another man, dressed in black, enters moments before an inferno suddenly engulfs the lift.
They all run out of the lift before the door closes while the flames continue to rage.
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They escaped with minor flash burns because hydrogen burns so quickly.
How do you know they didn’t use the cheap flammable helium?
Oh, the humanity!!
“How do you know they didn’t use the cheap flammable helium?”
Well either way for a child’s b day party that was freaking stupid.
I guess hydrogen is considerably cheaper than helium. Could you imagine a large ballroom with hundreds of those hydrogen filled balloons.
The hydrogen – filled balloons were probably brought to the party by the same person who brought the woodgrain alcohol party beverages…
That party must’ve been a hoot!
“How do you know they didn’t use the cheap flammable helium?”
Because helium is not flammable.
The reason the injuries were not worse is because Hydrogen floats up as it burns.
Dont think that was hydrogen. H goes POP! That was a gas that went buh-woof! And it wasnt a low-density gas either...it looked almost equal to natural nitrogen-oxygen density.
“But, everything worked out fine, when I saw it done on Tik Tok. Didn’t you see it too? I did everything just like what they did ... pretty much.”
We are burning through our cheap helium really fast for stupid stuff like balloons and other non-critical games, the prices are reflecting it now too.
Once its used, it’s gone forever. No one knows what we may need quantities for in the future, but using it up for novelty crap might come back to seriously bite us in the butts some time for a yet unknown need.
I know we can drill for it and separate it from NG, but there is still a very finite amount of it readily available.
It was a calculated risk. In India helium is expensive and Indians are cheap.
JFTR, “lift” here means “elevator”.
Thank you. I was going to post that, but you took care of it.
Oh the Huge Manatee…
Places like India are why the Prime Directive was created in Star Trek.
Static electricity is a b——
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