Fire safety. A discussion. Not a witch hunt. Thompson 18 (Page 2 of 2)

Another incident I witnessed at Thompson:

A team was standing at the entrance to their garage bay attempting to modify the vents on their fuel cans. They were drilling out the vent holes to enlarge them.

Evidently they had not fully emptied or purged this fuel can, and then a spark from the drill ignited the residual fuel and vapors, leaving said individuals with a flaming fuel jug, and flaming gasoline on the pavement.

To their credit, one of the team members had a fire extinguisher at the ready during this whole process. They elected not to use it and instead stomp out the fire on the ground, and use the first rag (greasy or not) that they could find to smother the fire burning out the open end of their fuel jug.

All of this happened within a few feet of the garage, and within proximity to theirs and other teams fuel jugs that were placed outside of the garage. Not a great place to be playing with fire...