| ▲ | h335ian 4 hours ago |
| By the miraculous grace of God, a crack allowed pressure to bleed & enabled our engine company to prevent thermal runaway. A BLEVE was the projected outcome, a firefighters worst nightmare - see the Kingman BLEVE - https://www.cityofkingman.gov/government/departments-a-h/fir... |
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| ▲ | bayarearefugee 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > By the miraculous grace of God Guess He was asleep on the job when the valve broke causing the situation in the first place, but good on Him for intervening later. |
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| ▲ | 05 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Was busy giving children malaria.. | |
| ▲ | itishappy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Or He felt we needed a small reminder of what we're capable of if not careful! | | |
| ▲ | ok_dad an hour ago | parent [-] | | He never gave us a fucking manual in the first place, so who knows what He is thinking. | | |
| ▲ | D-Coder 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > He never gave us a fucking manual in the first place, so who knows what He is thinking. He did give us a manual. He very clearly says that slavery is okay and eating shrimp is a sin, and lots of other rules. | |
| ▲ | Kaliboy 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | You sure? I got a manual that has lined up with expectations thus far. |
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| ▲ | idiotsecant 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's ok to just treat it like a thing people say. When people say 'bless you' I don't explain to them that sneezing doesn't actually expel my soul from my body. | | |
| ▲ | gowld 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That was fine before people in power started using "God" to prevent the good work of humanity. | | |
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| ▲ | KennyBlanken 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | SuddsMcDuff 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That is an unhealthy level of contempt you have there. | |
| ▲ | uoflcards22 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > I always love how religious fruitcakes think that their 'god' both is completely omnipotent and infallible but also somehow gives a shit about them, and listens to them. Such a miserable existence looking down on people for their own beliefs. Please get a hobby. | |
| ▲ | Dig1t 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This comment is what real bigotry looks like. | |
| ▲ | fortran77 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You don't believe in anything, good for you. But it's not healthy for you to harbor so much hatred and anger for those with different opinions. You're free to worship your golden calf, but why not be civil? |
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| ▲ | cogogo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Seems more like the miraculous grace of incompetence and no maintenance. You ever have a problem at work and you procrastinate long enough and it just sort of goes away for “reasons”? This kind of reminds me of that. Not maintaining the valve was saved by taking even worse care of the tank. |
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| ▲ | throwaway894345 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not only that, but "there's a gas leak, let's strike it with a wrench" is one of the more interesting attempts I've heard of to win a Darwin award. | | |
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| ▲ | decimalenough 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| BLEVE = Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion |
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| ▲ | thom_nic 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > A leak was detected in one of the fittings and an attempt was made to correct it by striking the fitting with a large wrench. |
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| ▲ | bagels 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is this satire? |
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| ▲ | 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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