its a hwy where else you going to go but hurry and get off it, stupid people with no brains have comments like 'yep that's texas' That would be anywhere if that happened near a hwy.
I have no idea why there are so many recent comments on this haha. I looked it up because I saw the beginning of it from the road (just driving to work, didn't know there'd be giant explosions on my commute) and it was scary as hell.
Interesting how the traffic is still driving past, in the UK in instances of fire involving 1 acetylene cylinder the surrounding 1/4 mile is evacuated for 48 hrs - god knows how many cylinders are going up here , we'd evacuate the planet for this....
Interesting how the traffic is still driving past, in the UK in instances of fire involving 1 acetylene cylinder the surrounding 1/4 mile is evacuated for 48 hrs - god knows how many cylinders are going up here , we'd evacuate the planet for this....
@dcccapfan Just keep to the rules of taking care of those tanks and you'll do fine. Keep those check valves and regulators in good shape and you'll live long time.
Acetylene is unstable stuff. If even released at over 15psi it can detonate (in tanks it is dissolved in acetone), and nearly every mixture % with air is explosive. Many states do not allow HCCH tanks to be refilled in the state, so filling plants are in places like Texas and NJ.
@jh4dc5s i guess you are from tx how can u say texas dont care hell there is a huge fire going on, nothing to do but get out of it's way. please dont reply back it will be pointless.
@6catss Exactly! What were they supposed to do, pull over and help?? The best thing would have been to not drive by this fire at all, but Dallas highways make that a challenge - once you're on that highway, you're committed and stopping and turning around takes about 5 miles. They were most likely unaware of the fact that the cylinders were detonating and taking off like rockets. In every other state you guys would have stopped and clogged the highways, putting people in danger.
@ericcox2 Not really, I just had some inside information about the people driving by. Seems they were all late to where ever they were going and just drove by without giving a rat's-ass.
@brandon9271 Umm Yeah, very flammable and very unstable. It has to be absorbed into acetone to prevent it from exploding at pressures over 15 psi.
Typical storage pressure is 200 psi in special bottles.
It is created by mixing water and calcium carbide, which gasses off and is collected in a manifold, then compressed slowly into the bottles, it takes at least 8 hours to fill any bottle.
By the way the vehicles continue to serenely drive by, you'd think this must be pretty much par for the course in Texas. (Well, would ya look a'that? Huh.)
this is happening often in 3rd-world-countries of security-regulations (as the USA). The land of the "free". People are free to practice stupidty and become a threat to others on a daily basis. Great.
As an immigrant to the US from Europe, let me set you straight: There's America, and there's the Third World--everywhere else. That's why people line up a million a month to cross our borders, and why no one gives a shit about whatever shithole you live in. But do tell us what shithole you live in, so we can laugh.
@MillyVanillification fuck you asswipe, no one even died here. and most third world countries don't even have the industry to need oxy-acetylene welding equipment so go to hell, America's badass and you're a punkass bitch, I don't ask the government for permission to own guns or tanks of acetylene, I sure as hell make sure I maintain my shit so this doesn't happen though.
And people still drove by like no big deal.. like at 4:44... I know everyone likes to see big booms, fires, death, etc... but flames and big bursts like that I would not be driving near there!
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thats fake. i can tell. it's got an ab loop and a couple of other effects ther would be 1 giant explosion and a few smaller ones. ive seen stuff like this.
its not fake. i go 2 a tech school 4 welding and we c vids all the time where acetylene tanks explode. and it would of been a lot worse if there was oxygen tanks there when this happened.
So, is it fair to say that the guy didn't open for business the next day? I really like the stupid drivers who insist on driving by. That proves evolution is not true, because natural selection should have done them in long ago.
There were hundreds, this is a distribution center for welding gases. I tried to post a link to the MSNBC site that has the actual coverage, but youtube wont let me. Copy and past this video's title in google then look for the MSNBC report. ;)
hundreds if not thousands. pretty incredible actually. there are other vids on YT from a HELO with better close ups of the incident. You'll see hundreds of tanks all lined up for storage and filling.
What blows me away is...they didn't bother closing the highway to traffic. The fire and some rupturing cylinders are making their way to the highway. and people..in their infinite wisdom keep driving by. Like holy fuck!!..are they that stupid.? It is so fucking hot the ground is smoking from the heat..and it's not even near the fire...but they keep driving by like they are oblivious. The same stupids probably believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Idiots.
They did finally shut down the highway, I got stuck in the traffic that day. And you are right, a lot of Dallas drivers are fucking idiots, I deal with them daily.
Yeah, I like how at 2:13 in the video, you can see in oil tanker drive by. Like really? He saw the flames, was aware he was driving an oil tanker, but did not stop. You don't see how you could make this a little worse??? I think his logic was that if he drove fast enough, the fire couldn't get him. Blew my mind that someone driving an oil tanker would drive toward a pillar of fire, wow.
acetylene can spontaneously decompose, resulting in hydrogen gas....very explosive....relief valve will do nothing to prevent this. why are they letting traffic come so close? a bottle can shoot off like a rocket...that'd ruin your day.
Just think, this all started because of a damaged acetylene valve. Luckily no one was hurt, but a cylinder rocketed through the air and missed a semi on the the freeway by about 20 feet!
Well it sure looks different from this angle~! I was the guy with the firehose trying to cool down those cylinders on that first trailer.... A life changing event to say the least...
I dont think the tanks were taking off like rockets. Acetylene tanks have a safety valve that melts at a certain temperature.
The tanks are under pressure so what you are seeing is as the safety valve melts the gas shoots out under pressure like the blast of a rocket as it is ignited.
Excuse me, I'm no expert, but I did saw (in an other footage) a cylinder crashing down on Houstonstreet viaduct. And I've seen "things" take off and explode in mid-air. I don't believe valves can do that.
Oh well in a different footage, I am commenting on this footage. Aceytlene tanks do have a melt feature near the valves. Do you want me to take a pic of one to show you?
It's highly likely that the cylinders WERE taking off like rockets. Yes Acetylene tanks have safety valves (as do all gas cylinders) but Acetylene is a special case, under pressure it is very unstable (it's stored dissolved in Acetone to help stabilise it). The safety valve prevents the cylinder from exploding into lots of shrapnel in all directions and instead sends the whole cylinder in one direction which is a slightly safer outcome.
I see that now that I looked closer. My understanding is that the relief valve was to prevent them from exploding. That was years ago and maybe the design is different now. Look at my channel page.
"...relief valve was to prevent them from exploding.". It does prevent them from exploding but it does it by letting the whole contents of the cylinder out very quickly which causes a huge fireball (not technically an explosion) and may cause the cylinder to fly some distance. This is better than a true explosion which would result in loads of nasty bits of sharp metal flying in all directions. Not sure how US cylinders handle it but UK cylinders have a fusible plug in the base of the cylinder.
That's why in the UK, the fire brigade put a 220 yard exclusion zone put around any fire where there is even a suspicion of the presence of gas cylinders. Imagine the shrapnel from that fire...
1:37 AIR BURST!!!
ahart5530 1 day ago
its a hwy where else you going to go but hurry and get off it, stupid people with no brains have comments like 'yep that's texas' That would be anywhere if that happened near a hwy.
6catss 3 weeks ago
And well be using those things in ag class with a classfull of morons.
Maybe learning spanish isnt so hard.
crownedman104 3 weeks ago
Been on a few fires like this...it's some scary shit!!
johnnykATL 4 weeks ago
Notice how the relief valves look like birthday candles?
BadRabbitRuuning 1 month ago
Figures, the one video, in all of youtube, that I wanted to hear(sound).
ihavetofishable 2 months ago
at 1:50 that thing that shoots off is a fucking acetylene tank, it flew almost 900 yards!!
LOCALBRUTALITY666 2 months ago
4:06 lol wasn't expecting that
kkatarn327 3 months ago
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6catss 3 months ago
us texans CARE but i see you dont. glad you arent a texan.
6catss 3 months ago
thats not texas, cant do anything , there is alot of fire. just have to hurry and get off hyway.
6catss 3 months ago
this dam thing is gonem and id hate to be fighting this fire
countryboy6119 3 months ago
all for shits and giggles
pleppes 3 months ago
I have no idea why there are so many recent comments on this haha. I looked it up because I saw the beginning of it from the road (just driving to work, didn't know there'd be giant explosions on my commute) and it was scary as hell.
sarahkasapna 3 months ago
Scout Master says: "And THAT, my boys, is how you make a fire."
Kauwhaka 3 months ago
This could not be an episode of "Destroyed in seconds", since it took a lot more than a few seconds...
nick1f 4 months ago
The road is not closed, give them a chance. What, you think roads close themselves?
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Interesting how the traffic is still driving past, in the UK in instances of fire involving 1 acetylene cylinder the surrounding 1/4 mile is evacuated for 48 hrs - god knows how many cylinders are going up here , we'd evacuate the planet for this....
Good video though
izalman 4 months ago
Interesting how the traffic is still driving past, in the UK in instances of fire involving 1 acetylene cylinder the surrounding 1/4 mile is evacuated for 48 hrs - god knows how many cylinders are going up here , we'd evacuate the planet for this....
Good video though
izalman 4 months ago 2
MARSHMALLOW TIME...
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Nighthawke70 4 months ago
hahahahahah this shit is sooooo fuuucckkking cooooooolllll
chaos96152 4 months ago
They do it BIG in Texas
woodweezel 4 months ago
holy... shit...well the people in tht place died quickly. thats for sure
BlackSkies1944 4 months ago
I's still like to know how anyone could be dimwitted enought to allow that road to stay open. Unbelievable.
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those cops sure did a great job of shutting down the road
tipman100 4 months ago
thous cops sure did a great job of shutting down the road
tipman100 4 months ago
So scary!!! Look at the tanks flying outta that blaze!!! As a welder is scary to think in our shop we have like 50 of those tanks!!!
dcccapfan 5 months ago
@dcccapfan Just keep to the rules of taking care of those tanks and you'll do fine. Keep those check valves and regulators in good shape and you'll live long time.
Nighthawke70 4 months ago
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Nighthawke70 5 months ago
Who else sees the flying tank at 1:37?
andmoffitt 5 months ago
Chuck Norris' cigarette lighter.
Snoep76239 5 months ago
The guy who drives by at 4:54 was breaking the speed limit....
Snoep76239 5 months ago
Those birds at 3:50 are like, WTF!
Snoep76239 5 months ago
Acetylene is unstable stuff. If even released at over 15psi it can detonate (in tanks it is dissolved in acetone), and nearly every mixture % with air is explosive. Many states do not allow HCCH tanks to be refilled in the state, so filling plants are in places like Texas and NJ.
Snoep76239 5 months ago
@Snoep76239 Not for long....
Nighthawke70 5 months ago
@Nighthawke70 LOL, (as chicken Mc Nuggets fall out of the sky...)
Snoep76239 5 months ago
Holy shit! And the cars go by like it's no big deal . . .
weeeendog 6 months ago
People driving by not giving a fuck, yep that's Texas.
jh4dc5s 6 months ago 10
@jh4dc5s i guess you are from tx how can u say texas dont care hell there is a huge fire going on, nothing to do but get out of it's way. please dont reply back it will be pointless.
6catss 3 months ago
@6catss Exactly! What were they supposed to do, pull over and help?? The best thing would have been to not drive by this fire at all, but Dallas highways make that a challenge - once you're on that highway, you're committed and stopping and turning around takes about 5 miles. They were most likely unaware of the fact that the cylinders were detonating and taking off like rockets. In every other state you guys would have stopped and clogged the highways, putting people in danger.
mysynthesis 3 weeks ago
@jh4dc5s You're right. I wish you had been there to rubberneck, and get your fucking head taken off by one of those canisters.
BLIX5445 3 months ago
@jh4dc5s How do you know they don't give a fuck? You have the ability to read the minds of the people that appear in the videos you see?
ericcox2 2 months ago
@ericcox2 Not really, I just had some inside information about the people driving by. Seems they were all late to where ever they were going and just drove by without giving a rat's-ass.
jh4dc5s 2 months ago 2
HOLY FIRE BALLS THATS ME AFTER 10 COOKOUT & SONIC HOTDOG WITH CHILI AND BEANS
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balls of steel ...still driving by.
BitGridTV 7 months ago
All the workers had beans for lunch.
randomvideowatcher 8 months ago
some one divided by 0 again
epictangent 8 months ago 7
holy shit i remember this. it was crazy. there was some idiot who got close and tried to help by using a hose
texas9ish 8 months ago
@texas9ish lol. wow. he must have been high out of his mind.
pinhead61187 8 months ago
guys know how to party, let's go to jump through a fire))
TvDIvan 8 months ago
And this is why I dont eat at Talk O Bell anymore..
Northerncalwolf 8 months ago
that's a shit load of energy
raVen670 8 months ago
@raVen670 at least 1.21 jigga-wats :-D
Landotter1 8 months ago
everything is always bigger in texas
burn19ballz 9 months ago
1:37 FTW !!!!
MrRobbardos 9 months ago
this happens when i fart in a fireplace
Calvert1212 9 months ago
lol the people who friving their cars... feels that they are in the taping ,,, hahah action star
ericsantiago011 9 months ago
@ericsantiago011 Yeah, think I'll just drive-on-by.... N O T !!!!
Landotter1 8 months ago
nice fireworks.. =)
ericsantiago011 9 months ago
bloody texans always overdoing things. anybody else would have had a normal BBQ.
123456789mischief 10 months ago 2
1:40 jesus!explode!
NousDeus 10 months ago
Why don't we just drop acetylene bombs? Seems like it would be cheaper than the shit we make now....
staphinfection 10 months ago
Just like they say, everything is bigger in Texas! That includes stupidity.
TWOLF365 11 months ago
How much is innnnnnn there?
63Banshee 11 months ago
It blowedup guuuud!!! Jeetyet? Jwanna? Let's go git sum ribs!
m1y4nothing 11 months ago
The road on the foreground isn't blocked !!!…
We can see ball of fire running towards it …
Once again the cops don't do their job to protect people !…
USA is like a 3rd world country
(ok ! bad joke …)
vincent7520 11 months ago
the road on the foreground isn't blocked !!!…
Once again the cops don't do their job to protect people !…
vincent7520 11 months ago
marshmellow time
IMINTHEMOMENTRU 11 months ago
1:49 WOW was that a tank that launched out of there?!
SegaCD 1 year ago
WOW! Amazing this was so well caught on tape!
SegaCD 1 year ago
I remember watching this on live tv. It was the best that I have seen on TV for most of the last decade. :o
It was cool when the oxygen tanks were hit and seeing the violet flames.
MrKillswitch88 1 year ago
AWWWW SHIYTTTTTT
waydlemx 1 year ago
this is a time when you grab a beer, sit back, and enjoy the show!!!
Fourteen88SoCal 1 year ago
if there were oxygen tanks in that mix, the blast would have been even BIGGER! =P
Mulinlor 1 year ago
@Mulinlor if there was a perfect mix of that and oxigen, there would be nothing left in like 1 kilometer radious
FireBIaze 1 year ago
Oh sheet That is too many propane tank in there i think there a person Die In there
its Like Flaming ball or Nuclear Bomb ^_^
mzrebellious 1 year ago
Never heard of acetylene... Is it flammable? ;-)
brandon9271 1 year ago
@brandon9271 Umm Yeah, very flammable and very unstable. It has to be absorbed into acetone to prevent it from exploding at pressures over 15 psi.
Typical storage pressure is 200 psi in special bottles.
It is created by mixing water and calcium carbide, which gasses off and is collected in a manifold, then compressed slowly into the bottles, it takes at least 8 hours to fill any bottle.
PyRexext 1 year ago
WHERESS THE SOUND!?
BenHutchinson1 1 year ago
The people driving by were probably like "FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK"
dxfx1 1 year ago
By the way the vehicles continue to serenely drive by, you'd think this must be pretty much par for the course in Texas. (Well, would ya look a'that? Huh.)
PurdueMatt 1 year ago 2
@PurdueMatt
LOL or "least it aint an oil well billy"
2LateIWon 1 year ago
lol@Enter your text here XD
Ibemad 1 year ago
i to would love to hear the adio for this footage .it is mental
ninja2kernow 1 year ago
I sure would like to hear a good audio recording of this.
TheMrBlinx 1 year ago
This is what happens whenever I light my fart.
emersondavis 1 year ago
satisfying. hope nobody got hurt though.
jbrabec22 1 year ago
WOW! You guys know how to party! All we get is a box of sparklers!
Laxpowertoo 1 year ago 15
@Laxpowertoo Best fountain I ever saw.... Bet it was expensive. Aren't fountasins illegal that make sparks over 15 feet....?
Landotter1 8 months ago
Honey!!! I think I over-cooked the ribs again!!! Damn it.
krayzcomet 1 year ago
this is happening often in 3rd-world-countries of security-regulations (as the USA). The land of the "free". People are free to practice stupidty and become a threat to others on a daily basis. Great.
MillyVanillification 1 year ago
@MillyVanillification fuck you, cockbag.
As an immigrant to the US from Europe, let me set you straight: There's America, and there's the Third World--everywhere else. That's why people line up a million a month to cross our borders, and why no one gives a shit about whatever shithole you live in. But do tell us what shithole you live in, so we can laugh.
mzmadmike 1 year ago
@MillyVanillification Hey MillyGorilly....this is a First-World country, and the fact is...nobody was killed in the acident.
PopppaBlue59 1 year ago
@MillyVanillification fuck you asswipe, no one even died here. and most third world countries don't even have the industry to need oxy-acetylene welding equipment so go to hell, America's badass and you're a punkass bitch, I don't ask the government for permission to own guns or tanks of acetylene, I sure as hell make sure I maintain my shit so this doesn't happen though.
gleet0 4 months ago
and this stuff really stinks
waiotahi52 1 year ago
we just BBQ before 2012
pokos57 1 year ago
i've always wanted to take a cuttin torch to a acetylene tank......but dont want to be close enough to do it =P
raptorman120 1 year ago
wooo hooo, happy 4th of July
foxdmulder 1 year ago
great balls of fire, what a wonderful after school science project, I hope everyone is OK!
remnant1978 1 year ago
ellamadonna!!!
deimos2k6 1 year ago
"Hey look at those nuclear like explosions coming up on the highway, I think its a good idea to continue to drive towards the giant explosions"
ganymedeIV4 1 year ago 2
I LOVE the smell of napalm in the morning!
therealbeaker 1 year ago
NEATO
MyownbreW 1 year ago
It says enter your text here, but when I try it doesn't work.
xXBallistic82Xx 1 year ago 65
@xXBallistic82Xx
You dumbass
xXBallistic82Xx 1 year ago
As this was happening, water was being created.
SouthwesternEagle 1 year ago
And people still drove by like no big deal.. like at 4:44... I know everyone likes to see big booms, fires, death, etc... but flames and big bursts like that I would not be driving near there!
Huskyhush 1 year ago
Check out the exploding acetylene missle at 1:38, left side of screen, middle.
lawlessone03 1 year ago
almost happened at my school kil left torch on over the acetylene hose and it started smoking luckily i was able to dive and turn it off lol
ir0nfist88222 1 year ago
they were flying out hundreds of feet !
FloridaSeverWeather 1 year ago
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thats fake. i can tell. it's got an ab loop and a couple of other effects ther would be 1 giant explosion and a few smaller ones. ive seen stuff like this.
ultizerofan 2 years ago
its not fake. i go 2 a tech school 4 welding and we c vids all the time where acetylene tanks explode. and it would of been a lot worse if there was oxygen tanks there when this happened.
crosscountrypv 1 year ago
So, is it fair to say that the guy didn't open for business the next day? I really like the stupid drivers who insist on driving by. That proves evolution is not true, because natural selection should have done them in long ago.
Mikyz12 2 years ago
@Mikyz12 If they were too near exploding acetylene tanks long ago, you mean.
I'm 27 and never had wisdom teeth.
VCat2006 2 years ago
That's the shittiest logic I've ever heard.
samgoose 2 years ago
OMG, it's like watching the yule log on Christmas Day!
AKTactical 2 years ago
MASSIVE FAIL=MASSIVE WIN
tubage07 2 years ago
Oxygen isn't inert, Einstein.
laxman3221 2 years ago
You know, it's actually kinda beautiful.
Delboy001647363 2 years ago
i have never seen many explosions
guillermola 2 years ago
lol @136~1:40
daewooparts 2 years ago 2
LOL@ 1:36 ~1:40 watch in the left center ,it flies thru the air then blows
daewooparts 2 years ago 3
I like how the explosions go on for seven straight minutes. How many acetylene tanks are in there?!
mabindaby555 2 years ago
There were hundreds, this is a distribution center for welding gases. I tried to post a link to the MSNBC site that has the actual coverage, but youtube wont let me. Copy and past this video's title in google then look for the MSNBC report. ;)
DjAdario 2 years ago
hundreds if not thousands. pretty incredible actually. there are other vids on YT from a HELO with better close ups of the incident. You'll see hundreds of tanks all lined up for storage and filling.
TowTruckJoe1 2 years ago
0:21 = rocket cylindar, top left half
suddeninfantdeath 2 years ago
this has to be the best bleve ever
best explosion ever
Marcus4president 2 years ago
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toetruckjoe 2 years ago
HOLY SHITTTTTTTTT
LikeAVideo 2 years ago
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HOLLYWOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS !!!!
strazzy3 2 years ago
No...No it's not. check on here. I found a few of the vids of the same scene. One from a helo
Pretty DEADLY actually. amazing no one was killed.
TowTruckJoe1 2 years ago
This is real, I remember this day actually because they shut down the highway that you see right in front of the building.
DjAdario 2 years ago
Thanks. U took long enuff to respond...........what happened, did your pc break down or something ????
strazzy3 2 years ago
What blows me away is...they didn't bother closing the highway to traffic. The fire and some rupturing cylinders are making their way to the highway. and people..in their infinite wisdom keep driving by. Like holy fuck!!..are they that stupid.? It is so fucking hot the ground is smoking from the heat..and it's not even near the fire...but they keep driving by like they are oblivious. The same stupids probably believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Idiots.
TowTruckJoe1 2 years ago
HA HA HA , ROTFLMAO !!!!
strazzy3 2 years ago
They did finally shut down the highway, I got stuck in the traffic that day. And you are right, a lot of Dallas drivers are fucking idiots, I deal with them daily.
DjAdario 2 years ago
Hahaha dont we all :)
Stormy234 2 years ago
happy new Year
tahoeification 2 years ago
Кто-то закурил в кравате)
AlteirMorten 2 years ago
Did I hurt the baby's feelings?
rockhound694u 2 years ago
This is what happens when hell decides to light its farts lol....
azuracant 2 years ago
Hey, I know - let's drive TOWARD the 200 foot columns of flame !!!
gabeuop79 2 years ago 36
Yeah, I like how at 2:13 in the video, you can see in oil tanker drive by. Like really? He saw the flames, was aware he was driving an oil tanker, but did not stop. You don't see how you could make this a little worse??? I think his logic was that if he drove fast enough, the fire couldn't get him. Blew my mind that someone driving an oil tanker would drive toward a pillar of fire, wow.
ExplosiveScience 2 years ago
it could have been a dairy truck....
TOYDOLLSKID 2 years ago 2
could have been the short bus that you where riding on?
rockhound694u 2 years ago
where was that bec i have lived in dallas my whole life and i dont remember that
1y2o3u4t5u6b7e89 2 years ago
it happend pretty recently.. like 3 years or less.... i remember it when it happened...they had breaking news and all that junk
TOYDOLLSKID 2 years ago
acetylene can spontaneously decompose, resulting in hydrogen gas....very explosive....relief valve will do nothing to prevent this. why are they letting traffic come so close? a bottle can shoot off like a rocket...that'd ruin your day.
kenfo0 2 years ago
FIRE!
bigbradford69 2 years ago
EPIC
psycho2061 2 years ago
wow even though i live in Dallas but hell that explosion would look great in a movie...WTF BOOOOOOOOOOM
hphater 2 years ago
i saw tht frum mii house
sweetbluelavender 2 years ago
lurn tu spel dood
birthdaymatt 2 years ago 2
mfx1 is right. Acetylene explodes already at 39PSI!!! If the porus filling is loose that itself can cause explosion in the cyinder.
attsontampa 2 years ago
0:08. LOL "Enter your text here".
DeltaPhi79 2 years ago 3
airgas fire
KrK007 2 years ago
At 1:38, that thing really took off, didn't it?
Jitterbug200714 2 years ago
haha yea it rreally did fly xD awesome rocket haha
antiswattt 2 years ago
Just think, this all started because of a damaged acetylene valve. Luckily no one was hurt, but a cylinder rocketed through the air and missed a semi on the the freeway by about 20 feet!
richnerjm82 2 years ago
wow i didnt know that happened
melissAiskewlness 2 years ago
Well it sure looks different from this angle~! I was the guy with the firehose trying to cool down those cylinders on that first trailer.... A life changing event to say the least...
moirani 2 years ago
I dont think the tanks were taking off like rockets. Acetylene tanks have a safety valve that melts at a certain temperature.
The tanks are under pressure so what you are seeing is as the safety valve melts the gas shoots out under pressure like the blast of a rocket as it is ignited.
dunkirknewyork 2 years ago
Excuse me, I'm no expert, but I did saw (in an other footage) a cylinder crashing down on Houstonstreet viaduct. And I've seen "things" take off and explode in mid-air. I don't believe valves can do that.
Smarpache 2 years ago
Oh well in a different footage, I am commenting on this footage. Aceytlene tanks do have a melt feature near the valves. Do you want me to take a pic of one to show you?
dunkirknewyork 2 years ago
Did you actually see the video??? At 4:44 one almost hits a car. That was one of dozens.
ffjsb 2 years ago
It's highly likely that the cylinders WERE taking off like rockets. Yes Acetylene tanks have safety valves (as do all gas cylinders) but Acetylene is a special case, under pressure it is very unstable (it's stored dissolved in Acetone to help stabilise it). The safety valve prevents the cylinder from exploding into lots of shrapnel in all directions and instead sends the whole cylinder in one direction which is a slightly safer outcome.
mfx1 2 years ago
I see that now that I looked closer. My understanding is that the relief valve was to prevent them from exploding. That was years ago and maybe the design is different now. Look at my channel page.
dunkirknewyork 2 years ago
"...relief valve was to prevent them from exploding.". It does prevent them from exploding but it does it by letting the whole contents of the cylinder out very quickly which causes a huge fireball (not technically an explosion) and may cause the cylinder to fly some distance. This is better than a true explosion which would result in loads of nasty bits of sharp metal flying in all directions. Not sure how US cylinders handle it but UK cylinders have a fusible plug in the base of the cylinder.
mfx1 2 years ago 2
l.o.l. mushrooms :P
daewooparts 2 years ago
atupid drivers ! they are looking that is danger to drive around here but they dont care!
koolcuul 2 years ago
look! it's the USA economy!!
xorbe 2 years ago 3
That's why in the UK, the fire brigade put a 220 yard exclusion zone put around any fire where there is even a suspicion of the presence of gas cylinders. Imagine the shrapnel from that fire...
garypaulsmith 2 years ago 2
200 meters or 218.7 yards.....sorry to be pedantic!
Adambrew 2 years ago
lol they forgot to add the oxygen tanks! Sort out some of dat sooty smoke it would! (Or is that why you DON'T store them together???!!!) :D
azza1121 2 years ago
happy new year!!!
HazeGreyAndUnderway 2 years ago
holy-terrorist:>woww very cool *=* 5/5
Agentoxedo07 2 years ago
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xAUSTIN86x 2 years ago
anit anyone sorting it out?
gaktkr 2 years ago
Where can I buy this firework?
sanddune1981 2 years ago 4