Jack Co. Tank Battery Fire

8000 gallons of burning oil. Up in smoke!!!!!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Tank
• Battery
• Fire

[navonechile]

Very interesting job. I can see mainly, you try to protect the foam tip. Is this the SOP for these situation? Is this kind of fire common in your location?

[adambrink20]

what makes u think its close to boiling over???? Seen many tank fires from working in the oilfield and being a volunteer firefighter. No signs of boil over seen in this video. Looked like those guys did a good job.

[ffjsb]

@r3dism1col0r If they were well trained, they'd have on the proper gear. And they would have left the booster line on the truck. One of these days somebody's gonna get killed operating like that.

[agcatdriver]

I kinda doubt that, but I'll take your word for it. I fly pipeline patrol, and fly a big gathering system that lies all around Jacksboro, I've seen fires like this several times from the air.

[r3dism1col0r]

These guys were working tank fires when ya'll were poop'n yellow. See the water level (burn line), see the standpipe (foam), see the cooling lines (to prevent reignition), see them put the fire out in less than 4 mins. These guys are well trained, not lucky. You should see them do 6 tanks at once. I did, no luck just alot of training.

[agcatdriver]

These guys are VERY lucky. This situation was very close to a boilover that very well could have caught all of them.

[rulrocker]

wheres the foam vehicle??

[KevAsh885]

they did not drain the water from the tank. they are lucky it didnt boilover

[toast537]

Haha, I was there when the lighning struck this. Money lost, but too cool.