Fire hazard
Re: The letter (blog) in today’s paper regarding the use of a propane bottle inside a closed building. What happens is that the bottle and its contents warm up, making the relief valve open, letting off pressure.
That naturally adds to any flame (and heat), causing the bottle to expand again and again. Then the building goes.
In about 1976, when we had first formed and begun operations in our Northwest Lowndes Fire Department (now the Dist. 2 Fire Department), we were called to a fire on Spivey Road where a heater was in place in a pump house with the freshly filled propane bottle also in the pump house. The condition just described happened.
Gary Holtman
Columbus
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