Stupid Gas Grill incident.
Years ago shortly after I bought my first house, girlfiend and I go to the local garden shop and pick out a really nice gas grill for my brand new 500sq ft deck. So the one we pick out was out of stock but the sales guy offered me the floor model for 10% off. What a deal! It's already assembled and less expensive! So we make the deal, get a can of LP gas, and toss them in the back of the pickup.
So we get to the house and the Red-head, (fake of course, (trust me I know for sure)), runs in to cut fillets from the tenderloin while I unload and fire up the grill. I put the tank in, turn on the gas and push the starter...Whoosh! Great right?? Well all of the sudden I noticed that theres a lot of heat then the wood skirt starts smokin & flammin and stuff. So I take a look at it sidways and there a huge flame directed right at the tank, and the paint is starting to burn away.
I go to shut this thing off but no dice, so I try to turn the valve on the tank and find that a little much. So I grab the hose and start hosin, but it's still getting hotter. I call the red-head to get another hose or the fire extinguisher, but she comes out and sees that I'm fighting a loosing battle and runs behind the garage and screams for the dog. Not much help there....
By this time I'm afraid to put down the hose because I dont think I can get clear before the big bang, so I stick with it keeping the water stream on the gas tank, which by now has a visable bubble protruding from the top outer edge.
So the neibhors are aroused to the commotion and smoke, (now the decks on fire), and so Jim jumps the fence with his hose and between the two of us I can get a hand in to turn off the gas.
Seconds later we're surrounded by a bunch of guys in turnout suits with BIG hoses. They take a look at the now 1.5 size tank, and call the Macomb County Bomb Squad who takes the gas bottle & grill in a containment trailer and blows them up in some field.
It turned out to be a combination of two errors, faulty regulator, (not regulating), and loose hoses, (floor model assembly with no tools).
In two weeks I get TWO new decks, TWO new grills, & TWO new deck furnature sets....Eventually got a new girlfiend (not mispelled), also..
AS for me; 1st & 2nd degree burns on face, chest, hands & arms. Looked like hell for a while, but got over it.