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Motorcharge said:
I'm pretty sure anyone with a gun can stop a hot air balloon. :laughing:
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They leak a ton of air naturally. You'd need to really swiss cheese one to bring it down. 12ga flares might be better but IDK how fire ******ant they are. They are in close proximity to a huge open flame burner after all.
 
Sniffler said:
What if the next round is a tracer?

Real question. Do you think it would ignite after being shot if the burner was on? I know nothing about hot air balloons. :homer:
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Myth busters did a special on this topic. They could not get a propane tank to "explode" by shooting it and even with tracer rounds.
 
Sniffler said:
What if the next round is a tracer?

Real question. Do you think it would ignite after being shot if the burner was on? I know nothing about hot air balloons. :homer:
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Even if the propane ignites it will just burn out of the hole til the gas is gone.

en.wikipedia.org

Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion - Wikipedia

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Propane tanks only explode on movies and tv, they don't do that **** in real life. If they did you wouldn't see them stored at gas stations and **** right up against the building.
 
a BLEVE is a real bad thing.....but they're pretty rare. The blow-off valve can usually keep up with venting them, even if they're pretty close to a fire. We had a fire at a pig barn a few years back, and they had a big propane tank next to the barn. We kept it hosed down, and it just pissed flaming propane out the top the whole time. But nothing bad (other than a lot of dead pigs) happened.
 
JayMcJay said:
a BLEVE is a real bad thing.....but they're pretty rare. The blow-off valve can usually keep up with venting them, even if they're pretty close to a fire. We had a fire at a pig barn a few years back, and they had a big propane tank next to the barn. We kept it hosed down, and it just pissed flaming propane out the top the whole time. But nothing bad (other than a lot of dead pigs) happened.
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My little brother went though the firefighter boot camp thing years back
One of the things they had to do was put out a big propane tank that was on fire
they coned the hose, the flames trapped inside it like the ghost buster laser gizmo, walk up to it and turn the valve off

He had a really cool picture of it :beer:

random internet image to try to help explain:
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Side view of firefighters kneeling as they spray a propane tank fire...

Side view of firefighters kneeling as they spray a propane tank fire with water.
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