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<blockquote data-quote="TheDoubleD" data-source="post: 3428237" data-attributes="member: 43754"><p>One explanation given for the devastation is that these type leaks go in the walls and stay there building up over time until it a spark ignites the gas-like plugging in a coffee pot.</p><p></p><p>The indicator being the walls are destroyed and insulation is blown all over. Where as if the room filled with gas and ignited the entire wall would remain intact and just be blown outward. </p><p></p><p>Of course the source of that info was an anecdotal comment of the helicopter pilot flying head, describing a personal experience involving a family member down in Texas..</p><p></p><p>Look at the wreckage it is easy to accept that. Something had to get between the core of the fireplace and its decorative exterior and blow it off. Same with walls, destroy for inside out.</p><p></p><p>The burns he said would be not from fire, rather from the flash. flash-burns. I have seen some of those myself when a rail car of propane and my friend was burned a mile away. He was sitting in a police car blocking the street and had the pattern of the expanded metal cage burned into the top of his shoulder and the back of his head. The part where the blast was shaded by the metal, not burned. Where flash passed through open metal, burned little diamonds in him. This was in Kingman, AZ back in the 70's.</p><p></p><p>Anecdotal so might not be correct, but sounds reasonable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheDoubleD, post: 3428237, member: 43754"] One explanation given for the devastation is that these type leaks go in the walls and stay there building up over time until it a spark ignites the gas-like plugging in a coffee pot. The indicator being the walls are destroyed and insulation is blown all over. Where as if the room filled with gas and ignited the entire wall would remain intact and just be blown outward. Of course the source of that info was an anecdotal comment of the helicopter pilot flying head, describing a personal experience involving a family member down in Texas.. Look at the wreckage it is easy to accept that. Something had to get between the core of the fireplace and its decorative exterior and blow it off. Same with walls, destroy for inside out. The burns he said would be not from fire, rather from the flash. flash-burns. I have seen some of those myself when a rail car of propane and my friend was burned a mile away. He was sitting in a police car blocking the street and had the pattern of the expanded metal cage burned into the top of his shoulder and the back of his head. The part where the blast was shaded by the metal, not burned. Where flash passed through open metal, burned little diamonds in him. This was in Kingman, AZ back in the 70's. Anecdotal so might not be correct, but sounds reasonable. [/QUOTE]
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