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Motor home explodes when owner look

2013 Reader Submission
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I’ve ran some interesting calls as a volunteer firefighter but the call I ran yesterday deserves an honorable mention. A homeowner was looking for a propane leak in his camper with a lighter. The explosion sent him flying 20 feet away. All I can say is “mission accomplished”.

original new paper article below

A motor home exploded Sunday around dusk in St. Amant, injuring the homeowner and shaking homes more than 10 miles away.

The blast in the 10500 block of Savoy Road spewed motor home debris as far as 90 feet and damaged three nearby homes, said St. Amant Fire Chief James LeBlanc.

And yet the homeowner, a 79-year-old man who was standing next to the camper when it exploded shortly after 5 p.m., suffered only minor injuries in a blast that sent him flying at least 20 feet, LeBlanc said.

“I don’t know how this cat walked away from that,” LeBlanc said. “It was unbelievable.”

The explosion, which LeBlanc compared to the detonation of half a dozen pipe bombs, was likely caused by the homeowner, who was checking for a propane leak around the camper using a lighter.

LeBlanc said he was told Sunday the man’s leak-searching methods were commonplace a long time ago.

Firefighters with the St. Amant and Sorrento fire departments eventually extinguished the flames that resulted from the explosion, and the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office and ground units from Acadian Ambulance Service also responded to the blast.

The homeowner was taken to a medical facility with moderate injuries, LeBlanc said.

Submitted on 11/04/2013

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: 11/03/2013 http://theadvocate.com/home/7488663-125/motor-home-owner-injured-when

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Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks, but this sort of idiocy is extremely commonplace. My personal favorite of this type is a submission from a few years back that linked to this video of a commercial gas tanker driver who decided to use a lighter to check on the fuel level of his truck during a delivery at a gas station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5M--0CSZ1I


James said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
As Bruce said!


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