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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on May 20, 2011 at 3:56am

700,000 Liters = 184,920.44 Gallons

That's a lot of fuel to burn. I bet your glad that it's just plain old ordinary flammable liquids verses the new fuels we get to deal with that are made using ETOH.

Great photo Lutan!

CBz

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Permalink Reply by joemac on May 20, 2011 at 7:38pm

Reminds me of going into Philly as vollies in the late sixties.
Where you hung out and talked with career guys and learned.

One night there was a very large structure that was belching some heavy smoke and they were setting up a deluge gun off the midship of a Mack, when it let out a loud, very loud, hiss.
This was at a refinery fire that was out of control. We hauled some hose that night...

Everyone, in unison, turned and took off in search of cover.

Then it went.
It sent half of us to the ground, some to hospital.
I scuffed a knee and banged up my shoulder, which occasionally still reminds me.

The paper the next day had a picture of the fireball. They estimated it to be a quarter mile, diametrically speaking.

Another refinery blaze showed me the heat travel of a storage tank flaming away.
You could feel that thing from thousands of yards away.
I think it was a 1.5 million gallon tank at the Getty refinery.

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