dazdmc
ArboristSite Lurker
Now I know it's not strictly arborist but I bet all of you guys burn waste wood and scrap at some time or other. Most if not all of you would have heard how dangerous this can be and wouldn't do it, but if it helps someone else to not make the same mistake then it's worthwhile.
My brother (mid 30's) was burning some waste wood and garden rubbish in his old waste water tank yesterday, well he couldn' get the fire to light properly. He proceeded to fill a small cup with petrol and throw it on to speed things up. Well, nothing happened??? So he poured some more on, just as he done that the vapours from the first cup ignited and went boom, he jamp back, fell over, knocked the petrol can over and is now in hospital with 25% burns covering everything from the waistline up. He had the presence of mind to jump in his garden pond to put the flames out and then ran insde the house and jumped in the cold shower. Somehow he then managed to make sure the waste fire was extinguished, put the dogs in the kennel, write a note for his wife and then drove 18 miles to accident and emergency dep't before collapsing with shock!!! He is going thankfully going to pull through, hopefully without too much scarring, especially on his face. We already have been told that he will deffinately require plastic surgery on his back, but we have to wait and find out about the rest of his body, but so far it's looking positive. What I can't get over, is he is old enough and normally wise enough to know better, if he seen me about to try something like that I would be in big trouble! I just cant understand what was going through his mind??? As I say, we have been told he will be ok, albeit with some scarring, but he' alive, and one lucky guy.
daz
My brother (mid 30's) was burning some waste wood and garden rubbish in his old waste water tank yesterday, well he couldn' get the fire to light properly. He proceeded to fill a small cup with petrol and throw it on to speed things up. Well, nothing happened??? So he poured some more on, just as he done that the vapours from the first cup ignited and went boom, he jamp back, fell over, knocked the petrol can over and is now in hospital with 25% burns covering everything from the waistline up. He had the presence of mind to jump in his garden pond to put the flames out and then ran insde the house and jumped in the cold shower. Somehow he then managed to make sure the waste fire was extinguished, put the dogs in the kennel, write a note for his wife and then drove 18 miles to accident and emergency dep't before collapsing with shock!!! He is going thankfully going to pull through, hopefully without too much scarring, especially on his face. We already have been told that he will deffinately require plastic surgery on his back, but we have to wait and find out about the rest of his body, but so far it's looking positive. What I can't get over, is he is old enough and normally wise enough to know better, if he seen me about to try something like that I would be in big trouble! I just cant understand what was going through his mind??? As I say, we have been told he will be ok, albeit with some scarring, but he' alive, and one lucky guy.
daz