Truck's gas tank explodes in Thai sugar cane field - three vehicles incinerated, 5 people burned

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Truck's gas tank explodes in Thai sugar cane field - three vehicles incinerated, 5 people burned

 

Thai caption: Truck gas tank explodes. Three vehicles engulfed in flames, 5 hurt. 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Five people with burns were taken to Wichianburi Hospital in Phetchabun province after a truck-trailer's gas tank exploded in the middle of a sugar cane field. 

 

The resulting fire also engulfed a pick-up truck and a motorcycle. 

 

The incident happened last night in the field off the Putoei - Sap Noi Road in Wang Yai sub-district of the north eastern Thai province. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Both the Hino truck and the four door Toyota Revo were the property of the owner of the sugar cane field. 

 

The Yamaha motorcycle belonged to a mechanic who had been called to repair the large truck's engine, reported 77kaoded. 

 

Police are investigating the cause. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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[sammieuk1]

Turns out that the mechanic needed the fire brigade before attempting a repair would be my advice for any leaking gas tanks after my near incident a few weeks ago????

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, sammieuk1 said:

Turns out that the mechanic needed the fire brigade before attempting a repair would be my advice for any leaking gas tanks after my near incident a few weeks ago????

I don't know, but will the fire brigade come out if there's not a fire in progress?

[Rimmer]

Maybe they were harvesting / burning the sugar cain field and as the article says the truck was in the middle of the field so......

[bluesofa]

25 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Maybe they were harvesting / burning the sugar cain field and as the article says the truck was in the middle of the field so......

Surely not!

[sammieuk1]

45 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I don't know, but will the fire brigade come out if there's not a fire in progress?

They sure do and very fast I suppose that is dependent on location though????

[Assurancetourix]

1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

Maybe they were harvesting / burning the sugar cain field and as the article says the truck was in the middle of the field so......

I have driven semi trailers for 40 years and this is the first time I have heard (or read) that a GO tank explodes;
diesel cannot catch fire "like that"; even if you approach a match with a container of diesel, nothing will happen; you can even drop the match into the container; the only thing that will happen will be the extinction of the match.

 

The fire did not come from the truck; it's still an invented sleeping story.

 

It was not in the middle of the plantation either; he couldn't have done it anyway;
on the other hand what must have happened is a return of flames from the burning plantation;

the flames go up very high, sometimes more than ten meters and if a gust of wind takes them on a nearby vehicle, this one will catch fire then when the GO is very hot, GO vapors contained in the tank will explode ...
But the diesel did not explode, it burned everything around it.

[PatOngo]

I thought DPM Prawatch was getting tough on sugarcane field fires! 

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

I have driven semi trailers for 40 years and this is the first time I have heard (or read) that a GO tank explodes;
diesel cannot catch fire "like that"; even if you approach a match with a container of diesel, nothing will happen; you can even drop the match into the container; the only thing that will happen will be the extinction of the match.

 

The fire did not come from the truck; it's still an invented sleeping story.

 

It was not in the middle of the plantation either; he couldn't have done it anyway;
on the other hand what must have happened is a return of flames from the burning plantation;

the flames go up very high, sometimes more than ten meters and if a gust of wind takes them on a nearby vehicle, this one will catch fire then when the GO is very hot, GO vapors contained in the tank will explode ...
But the diesel did not explode, it burned everything around it.

Was it Gas tank, as in gas.....?

[Assurancetourix]

4 minutes ago, transam said:

Was it Gas tank, as in gas.....?

Have a look at the photo ; it's a truck with a GO tank not with big bottles of gas behind the cabin ;

the problem here on this english forum is english language  !! 

Some people don't make the difference between a tank truck that carries liquid gas and a truck that has a GO tank
because, I no longer know in which language the GO is called gas ...

[Assurancetourix]

A truck running on gas

 

 

A truck that transports liquid gas but that runs on GO

 

 

I live in a sugar cane region, there is a huge factory 15 km from my village and it seems to me that I have never seen trucks carrying sugar cane working with gas

 

 

 

 

[sweatalot]

46/5000

 

 

 

was the mechanic welding?

[DrTuner]

Yeah well, driving on a sugar cane field while you're burning it..

[Grusa]

2 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

I have driven semi trailers for 40 years and this is the first time I have heard (or read) that a GO tank explodes;
diesel cannot catch fire "like that"; even if you approach a match with a container of diesel, nothing will happen; you can even drop the match into the container; the only thing that will happen will be the extinction of the match.

 

The fire did not come from the truck; it's still an invented sleeping story.

 

It was not in the middle of the plantation either; he couldn't have done it anyway;
on the other hand what must have happened is a return of flames from the burning plantation;

the flames go up very high, sometimes more than ten meters and if a gust of wind takes them on a nearby vehicle, this one will catch fire then when the GO is very hot, GO vapors contained in the tank will explode ...
But the diesel did not explode, it burned everything around it.

What does  "GO" stand for? I have never come across it meaning diesel, or NGV, and Mr Google can only find it as a new brand name.

[shady86]

Thats not going to help to reduce PM2.5 smog!

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

 

The Yamaha motorcycle belonged to a mechanic who had been called to repair the large truck's engine,

Now I get the picture!

[30la]

And here is another reason to check all the trucks that run on Thai roads, of which many have no maintenance!

[Assurancetourix]

15 hours ago, Grusa said:

What does  "GO" stand for?

Diesel ...

[Dumbastheycome]

22 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Maybe they were harvesting / burning the sugar cain field and as the article says the truck was in the middle of the field so......

Definite possibility. Just two weeks back a contractor nearly lost vehicles and had fire damage to equipment when they were using a harvester in a sugar crop that was still smoking hot !

 

[neeray]

On 2/7/2020 at 2:36 AM, transam said:

Was it Gas tank, as in gas.....?

I’ve never heard of a HINO being powered by gas. They are diesel powered. 

[transam]

11 hours ago, neeray said:

I’ve never heard of a HINO being powered by gas. They are diesel powered. 

http://www.transportengineer.org.uk/transport-engineer-features/gas-and-dual-fuel-burning-gas-in-a-diesel-engine/195688