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It was rolling up on 11pm tonight, I went to go take a piss and found my daughter still awake in bed. I told her if she did not get to sleep NOW I was going to Stuff her inside her pillow-case. She said; " Do it, if you think you can."
Well I did.
Brilliant clip & a perfect example of why fighting an oil fire with water is very dangerous!
(It's an electric transformer burning and the oil from inside has leaked and ignited)
At 0:15 you can see the water jet start.
At 0:18 the water flashes instantly to steam and vaporises a large quantity of oil and lifts it into the air.
You can bet at that moment the cameraman suddenly felt very, very hot - even though he was quite a distance away.
You would not have anything left to eat if that was your barbecue Bam!
RR.
Pedants rule, OK. Or more precisely, exhibit certain of the conventional trappings of leadership.
"I love the smell of ladyboy in the morning." Kahuna
On August 17th 1993, the Ives Dairy Substation in Miami, Florida experienced a total system failure.
The uncontrolled arc fault caused the coolant (mineral oil) inside the primary transformer to overheat to critical levels until it was boiling in a highly flammable state. This boiling caused pressure to rise inside the transformer (like a pressure cooker) until the seals finally blew. Mineral oil vapor proceeded to pour out at that point (the plume of white fog at the end) which ignited on the arc fault. The flames caused by this immediately ignited back to the source, (the boiling transformer tank), which ignited the mother load of oil inside causing the substation to explode in a giant ball of fire.
The sudden loss of all transformer coolant resulted in a simultaneous flash-meltdown of the transformers innards, which immediately caused the main high voltage fuse to overload and blow (the loud explosion at the end), finally killing the arc.
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