What causes fires at petrol stations? It’s sort of obvious
This so deserves to be more widely known. From this week’s letters at The Register:
“Spotted your rebuttal of the claim that mobile phones can ignite petrol, true.
But more interesting, and funny, is what I heard on an “intrinsic safety” course, which deals with designing equipment for garage forecourts, oil rigs etc.
Do you know what the number 1 cause of forecourt fires is?Carelessly discarded cigarettes? Mobile phones?
Nope. It’s people whose cars are on fire, driving up to the pumps and gesticulating wildly for help from the cashier.
Kevin”
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- Environmentalists will embrace nuclear power and GMOs, and other contrary thinking (18 April 2005; score: 36.13%)
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