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I don’t actually understand what this video is tying to show me. a gas tanker gets driven away from a fire and then there’s a burnt out car? Where’s the bravery?
The guy who drove the tanker that was on fire to get it away from as many people as possible before it possibly exploded.
Yeah. It looks like the tanker is leaking gas and spreading the fire as it drives away.
i think he is driving away the truck form the people wich exploded or burnt out then ..
I also thought that he is spreading the fire driving around with a leaking burning truck. There is some information missing to really appreciate the heroism.
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Where are firemen btw?
I don’t know where you come from but from around this planet firemen have yet to invent instant teleporters.
This just happened seconds ago. The firemen don’t materialize the way they do in videogames. Get off the couch and go outside, man.
dont feed the trolls please
I agree with this statement. And my house burnt to the ground when I was in high school – you could see the fire hall from my yard. However, it happened at 2 am, so what can you do?
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Yeah, I dont get the bravery either. Looks to me like he spread the fire further than it would have otherwise.
this
He was going away from the gas station. Thus hopefully the underground tanks did not explode, only the truck.
The part you don’t see in this short ed video is that he fought the fire and then actually jumped in and drove it away. Most others were running away.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/858110-man-drives-burning-tanker-from-petrol-station-youtube-video
Thank you very much Cec!
They ruined the video, the beginning is cut off.
First, the tanker was parked, with nobody inside.
Then the fire started.
And then that guy runs into the tanker to drive it away from the fire (and prevent much worse to happen).
In this video only the driving away was shown, and the whole story is lost.
As I said, THEY RUINED THE VIDEO!
I did a search on it and found that there’s more to the video than is shown here. At first, there was nobody in the truck. There was a guy that saw the fire start and first ran to get a fire extinguisher, but then the fire got out of control quickly, so he dropped the extinguisher and jumped into the truck and drove it away from the gas pumps and the cars and people that were there.
This is him taking control of a burning gas truck to save lives.
What the f*** have you done lately?
YOUR MOTHER
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I took some scissors away from a kid who was running, although come to think of it, I gave them to him in the first place.
I just watched a video of a guy driving around in a burning gasoline truck.
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Looks retarded, he should of just left the tanker.
so the whole gas station could catch fire?
yes, it probably wasn’t the safest thing to do, but it was damn brave and damn heroic.
I don’t understand what is being shown here?
I’m assuming someone stopped the truck or something but can’t tell who/how or if that’s even what happened?
“I put the fires out.”
“You made them worse!”
“Worse… or better.”
Win.
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The truck doesn’t look like it’s in control. It looks like it has no driver.
Kinda confusing…
There’s no audio so it’s hard to figure out, hopefully he survived?
The person is driving the flaming tanker away from a gas station so it doesn’t explode the gas station and kill everyone.
For idiots who watched the video and saw nothing:
^^^ This.
Hollywood special effects are not real. Gas stations don’t explode, cars don’t explode, because gasoline and its vapors don’t explode. It combusts. Normal, slow fire. Oh and it is ‘deh law’ for gas stations to be equipped with all sorts of safety equipment at the pump to stop the flow and extinguish the flames should they catch. This guy was driving towards the source of more combustibles in a combustible. Dumbass, but not surprising since he managed to light his truck on fire.
Under the right conditions gasoline can explode. So the gas station could explode. Also, I’m not sure about what the safety regulations in Turkey are, that’s where it happened. If the truck stayed where it was, it would have compounded the fire and made it more difficult for the firefighters to put it out.
Gasoline (or any combustible material) will explode only if it is under pressure. Clearly there wasn’t enough pressure for it to explode, since it was freely flowing. I do wish people would learn basic chemistry/physics before playing ‘hero’ and possibly endangering more people through silliness.
As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Wrong, it can explode if it’s the correct fuel to air ratio. Clearly there isn’t enough pressure in a grain silo or a house filled with natural gas, so there could never be an explosion there. I wish you would learn basic chemistry/physics before pretending to be ‘smart’.
As I say, the road to stupidity is paved with stupid people.
1. Place gasoline in either a sealed container or one with poor ventilation.
2. Place container in fire.
3. Wait for the building pressure to rupture the tank.
4. ???
5. Profit! (and explosion)
Yea the guy is spreading the fire, but at the same time he’s moving it out of the bulk of the fire.
Besides, a long stream of small fire is going to be easier to put out than a tanker spewing out burning fuel
“gasoline and its vapors don’t explode”??
You don’t understand how an internal combustion engine works, do you??
This “Deh Law” applies to gas stations in Turkey, where this took place?
Also, gas doesn’t “explode”, except when it does:
http://www.vidmax.com/video/1059/South_Korean_gas_station_explodes_in_a_massive_blast/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gas+station+explode
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gas+tanker+explode
I grew up in Mexico city and i had to evacuate my house after an exploded gas station, a primary blast can allow passage of more oxygen allowing the whole station to blow and since the are buried the whole blast is channeled to the surface….
don’t try and use science if your retarded
there are likely other forms of flammable materials in other forms of containers, propane tanks for instance. there was a huge explosion in Canada somewhere along the 401 highway caused by exploding propane tanks.
http://www.vidmax.com/video/1059/South_Korean_gas_station_explodes_in_a_massive_blast/
gas truck is on fire and it is parked on gass station and he moved it to lower chance of gass station exploding
“Let’s see, we could burn down a gas station and a tanker, or a tanker and a whole town…”
Nothing brave about starting a fire and spreading it.
Which seat can I take?
No, no! If you notice the dude running, he goes towards what we can assume is the car they show in the end (which eventually blows up) and then runs away from the fire carrying what looks like a KID in his arms. Yay, dude!
Here’s the full 1:20 video. It shows the whole scene.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20043344-10391705.html
Um, I see no heroism here. I see stupidity, where the guy drives the truck away, spreading the fire… and a burned up car.
The driver moved the truck so that if the fire built up enough pressure to detonate the tank, it wouldn’t risk taking out the pumps as well, possibly damaging the automatic shut-off valve underground. Gasoline does not explode. Gasoline vapors under pressure does.
You do realize gas stations are built to withstand just such an eventuality don’t you?
It is nearly impossible to damage the shut off systems as there are multiple valves and traps in the underground tanks.
I’ve seen multiple videos of gas station explosions, what?
You have seen the pumps, not the underground tanks as Tanner stated. That is a huge difference.
bulls**t. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ3n7wUA764
that was a propane tank.
Yes. Gas stations are equipped with safety shut-offs. But when the tanker is filling the underground tanks, those mechanisms aren’t as effective because they are only multiple safeties on their primary use (the pump end). Fumes can leak, static electricity can build up, and then you have what happens here. He was probably filling the tanks for the station when enough of a charge tried to ground itself, causing a spark.
What did I do today? Not much.
I certainly didn’t start/contribute to a major fire at a gas station and try to drive a flaming tanker down a street.
Why just today I Conquered the Retiree People of the Assisted Living Nebula
Bhazor: Slow day, eh?
I do think he was brave, he could have just jumped out and ran away. But the video would have been even cooler if he had been out of the truck and we saw him jump in a drive away.
I’m not an expert here, and I know it’s difficult for gas to combust, but It definitely happens. In the 17 years I’ve been alive I know of at least two gas stations in my area (Western CT) that have suffered fairly major explosions/fires, and those where only from cars plowing in to the gas pumps. It’s very difficult to make something accident proof, and if they can’t do it on a multi-million dollar oil rig, odds are they can’t do it at a corner gas station.
Tl;Dr: Gas stations do explode
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=+Engin+Ko%C3%A7ak+news
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/engin-kocak-drives-a-burning-tanker-out-of-a-petrol-station-to-save-many-lives_100514411.html
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkish-press-scan-for-march-13-2011-03-13
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8224659/hero-drove-burning-truck-away-from-gas-station
Did the gas station died ? ^^
I have seen this before on True TV or Real TV or one of those shows and this is basically what you are seeing.
The car you see at the end was on fire, the driver of the truck ran, and a bystander jumped in to drive the truck away from the inferno thus saving the area from what would have been a massive explosion. Thus HERO.
i think he traveled to the future
^^^^^
Win.
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way to go sir, had that been in a warzone, you’d have gotten a medal
Have you ever seen a Gas station with thousands of gallons of gasoline explode?
Feel free to spread a few flames down the street on the asphalt, and possibly burn out one car to avoid it.
Because I guarantee the amount of fire that will spread in the explosion is way more catastrophic than a tanker driving down the street.
Kabooms like that suck.
Hero.
did he died?
bravery? more like luck…
underground fuel tanks do not explode.
tanker trucks, however, usually go up in a nice big poof once they leak bad enough and all the fuel spills at once. it’s quite bad when that happens at a gas station but it’s even worse if it happens while passing a school bus at the end of the cartoonish trail of fire down the road.
so this guy probably didn’t know what he was doing but as it seems to be legal there to build gas stations in densely packed back alleys it wasn’t a totally stupid idea.
The only way I could ever do something this awesome would be if “Don’t Stop Me Now” happened to be playing at the time.