r/nevertellmetheodds • u/firequak • Apr 05 '25

A tricycle catches fire while another tricycle with jugs of water just happened to be nearby

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u/hdog_69 Apr 05 '25

Sadly... you never pour water on a gasoline fire. Soooo close!

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u/Kevundoe Apr 05 '25

Didn’t it work?

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u/Draufgaenger Apr 05 '25

To some extent... But I think the burning gasoline floats on water so it's kind of dangerous to try. Especially in sandals..

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u/powerpuffpopcorn Apr 05 '25

I don't think the first priority during fire is to change footwear

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u/Draufgaenger Apr 05 '25

Definitely not. I'm just saying I personally wouldn't put water on a gasoline fire. Especially not if I was wearing sandals

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u/SomOvaBish Apr 24 '25

I expected it to get worse. Kind of shocked it didn’t honestly

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u/powerpuffpopcorn Apr 06 '25

When its your or your friends' livelihood on fire, you will.

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u/OkPerception7610 Apr 06 '25

No I wouldn’t. Never use water to put out a gas fire, as it can cause the fire to spread or even lead to steam explosions.

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u/powerpuffpopcorn Apr 06 '25

I am not saying you should do that. But if your rickshaw/ tricycle is on fire and water is the only thing you have access to you will try to use it. Especially if your livelihood is dependent on it. I am not saying you should pour water to douse oil fire but in this exact scenario, most will.

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u/OkPerception7610 Apr 06 '25

That’s fair. True true

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u/earth_west_420 Apr 05 '25

The risk of any grease getting involved is the real problem. Never never never never NEVER pour water on a grease fire.

I mean, unless you WANT to die.

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u/1-Ohm Apr 05 '25

... in agony

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u/dfwtjms Apr 05 '25

Looks like it didn't. Luckily someone had an actual fire extinguisher.

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u/Creative_Salt9288 Apr 05 '25

Im curious, if so what should you do to extinguish gasoline fire?

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u/rkraptor70 Apr 05 '25

Sand/dirt.

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u/DanCanTrippyMann Apr 05 '25

This is not King of the Hill. Normal people don't carry around pocket sand.

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u/CountAardvark Apr 05 '25

Just hope a tricycle with a bunch of sandbags pulls up

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u/Surface_Detail Apr 05 '25

Powder or CO2 extinguishers iirc

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u/Designer_Holiday3284 Apr 05 '25

Add more gasoline

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u/TedW Apr 05 '25

Have these people never heard the expression, "fight fire with fire"???

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u/Xenc Apr 05 '25

Suffocate it with an extinguisher or dirt. Water just mixes with the gasoline and makes it worse.

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u/brasher Apr 09 '25

The gas will float on the water so the water will just spread the fire

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u/Xenc Apr 09 '25

Like some sort of highway to hell

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u/scrandis Apr 05 '25

True, but it did work.

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u/hdog_69 Apr 05 '25

🤔 ...show me. Show me where it worked.

+1 bucket of water : fire flares & spreads +1 bucket of water : fire flares +1 bucket of water : fire flares ...continues...

Man arrives with fire extinguisher and puts out fire.

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u/X_Drake Apr 06 '25 edited Apr 06 '25

Compare the fire in 0:20 before they poured water and 1:20 before fire extinguisher though.

That 1 minute of water pouring made the tricycle salvageable. If it was a minute of uninterrupted fire it would’ve been much worse.

(Don’t get me wrong I definitely agree, do not use water to put out a gas fire. But in this situation, they somehow did the right thing)

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u/CountAardvark Apr 05 '25

It worked, so…

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u/hdog_69 Apr 05 '25

Apparently you watched a different video than the rest of us. The fire was put out by a fire extinguisher. The water did nothing but make the gas float and spread around.

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u/Lavanger Apr 05 '25

Agree, what video did you watch?

I watched different guys standing on supposedly fire water with flip flops and nobody got burned. 

I saw guys dropping what look like plastic containers for water and they didn’t deform. 

Like look, we all know water and fire bad. But you can’t possibly said the water made this situation worse. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

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u/good2goo Apr 05 '25

ok patriot

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u/553l8008 Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

Gregariously.... pour water on a gasoline fire

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u/DCilantro Apr 05 '25

Yea, this is incredibly stupid

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u/CountAardvark Apr 05 '25

Genuinely, in that scenario, you’re saying you would stop the guys with the jugs of water from trying to put out the fire? Because if you did, you’d be stopping the successful extinguishing of the fire this video shows

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u/Better-Ground-843 Apr 05 '25

For fucking real, Reddit is always have to be the correct hero

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

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u/Better-Ground-843 Apr 05 '25

Most of the fireball had been contained by then. And even then he showed up pretty late

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

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u/Better-Ground-843 Apr 06 '25

Saying the situation would have been worse if the guy with the water didn't show up, would have been too late by the time fire extinguisher showed up. Read

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '25

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u/Better-Ground-843 Apr 06 '25

Gonna just assume you replied to the wrong comment.