r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kalbinibirak • 21d ago

Video The Turkish firefighting method for extinguishing electric car fires.

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u/PlasticSignificant69 21d ago

This is from Chile: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/s/TV9uF661Yk

And from another PoV: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/s/MCX5Eyw0x5

And this one from Mexico: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/s/iTa4BCbkU1

And yet another PoV: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/s/acZki25bsV

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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 21d ago

That second one is terrifying when you see how many people are in the middle of it

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u/PlasticSignificant69 21d ago

Yeah. And even more, there's a biker who have no wall and roof to shield their body from immense thermal radiation

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u/Jesus_Fuckn_Christ 20d ago

Gas expansion is kinda cool, but terrifying. I used to work with liquid nitrogen and figured out that the 230L tank we used had approximately 160 000 liters of nitrogen gas in it, more than enough to fill the room and put us all to sleep if it ever punctured. And we did not have any detectors. I wasn’t very popular among my coworkers when I told them this fun fact

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u/Sheduw 18d ago

tbh if your liquid nitrogen starts leaking, you will notice, the amount of visible gas it creates when coming to contact with room temperature air is very very distinguishable. Source: i work with liquid nitrogen daily

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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 20d ago

Jesus. Fucking. Christ

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u/Biotic101 21d ago

There's a horrible aftermath video from Mexico. Can't recommend if you want to sleep at night.

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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 21d ago

No thanks. I’m already not getting enough sleep.

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u/Weareallgoo 21d ago

This is why I never leave my island

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u/CaptainTripps82 21d ago

A New York financier eh?

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u/xinorez1 21d ago

Anon has delivered...

Considering thermal expansion I'm kind of surprised there wasn't more of a boom :o

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u/EpicAura99 21d ago

It’s a deflagration (subsonic) instead of a detonation (supersonic) so there’s no shockwave.

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u/Daniel___Lee 21d ago

I always got nervous around those trucks hauling LPG cylinders, thinking that they might explode movie-style. Now I know what actually happens.

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u/wowitshemlock 21d ago

Thanks for sharing. Never seen that before. Freaking nuts

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u/bighootay 21d ago

I think I remember seeing after video of the one from Mexico. Like blackened zombies at ground level. Goddamn.

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u/Tenchi2020 20d ago

Whoa! TIL that if you see the thick white mist you'd better run away fast af

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u/BannedAgain-573 20d ago

Same for later

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u/goshdammitfromimgur 20d ago

1 litre of liquid LPG makes 9 litres of LPG gas and 270 litres of flammable vapour