Why would a beer can in a pot cause a fire? Is it the alcohol?
Toss water into hot oil and you'll get a steam explosion, sending hot oil flying everywhere.
If those catch fire (from the stove), and somehow spreads the fire into the pot (or more likely, you get distracted dealing with the other fire and accidentally let the oil in the pot catch fire), and you dump water on the flaming pot, the result is an entire plume of flaming vaporized oil flying all over the place.
Well in theory you can extinguish an oil fire with water, a lot of water, the sheer volume of water required would have crushed whatever you are trying to save.
Well in theory you can extinguish an oil fire with water, a lot of water, the sheer volume of water required would have crushed whatever you are trying to save.
Well, let's just let this sink in for a second...
We had a gas leak fire about two weeks ago.
In the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
From underwater. It was burning all the way from the underwater pipeline up to the surface of the ocean.
The ocean was literally on fire for a good five hours before it was finally snuffed out with active firefighting efforts.
Water? Hell, no. They used nitrogen to smother the fire, because pumping water into it would only spread the damn thing near everywhere.
From underwater. It was burning all the way from the underwater pipeline up to the surface of the ocean.
The ocean was literally on fire for a good five hours before it was finally snuffed out with active firefighting efforts.
Water? Hell, no. They used nitrogen to smother the fire, because pumping water into it would only spread the damn thing near everywhere.
In general context, the concept of firefighting was using any material that wasn't flammable to prevent fuel (of any kind, including oxygen) to reach the combustion. In Mexico's case, they're fighting an active leak (i.e the flame was constantly fed by steady supply of fuel) and they can't cut the supply. Gas floats (obviously) and forms bubbles filled with fire that can't be stopped underwater.
Enter Nitrogen. Not flammable (except in certain specific conditions), when pumped from liquid state quickly evaporates, displaces oxygen and gas so cuts off both fuels at once. If it wasn't so dangerous to humans, we'd be using liquid nitrogen to fight fires instead of fire-extinguishers based solely of cost-effectiveness; unlike MAP (mono-amnium phospate, the white powder commonly used in dry powder chemical-based fire extinguishers) you can just take regular, plain, old everyday air from anywhere and turn it into liquid Nitrogen.
Well in theory you can extinguish an oil fire with water, a lot of water, the sheer volume of water required would have crushed whatever you are trying to save.
Good thing she can't use Sacred Create Water this time. She would've destroyed the whole neighborhood.
