On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 17:03:19 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-02-01 3:31 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:05:04 -0700, Janet B >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Today is my birthday.
>>>
>>> My husband took the truck into the Ford dealer first thing. We'd had
>>> the truck in for a repair 10 days ago and the truck was leaking some
>>> oil. They'd had to put a oil filter relocation kit in and had
>>> simply neglected to put a clamp around the hose. As they lifted it up
>>> on the hoist, they punched through the forward gas tank with the lift!
>>
>> How in the hell did they manage that?!?
>> Did they use a proper car hoist?
>
>
>It could be worse. On Saturday evening I heard heard helicopters flying
>around and figured it was a bad sign. The only big helicopters were
>usually see around are the air ambulances. It turned out that a couple
>guys were badly burned in a house fire/explosion that happened when they
>were doing some work on the gas tank of a car in the garage. They were
>taken away in critical condition.
>
>http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2016/01...ire-in-welland

Sheesh. Half a mill damage too.

"Kennedy said the men were working on a car’s fuel tank when fuel was
ignited by a spark from a garage light"

Sounds like they were using a lamp on a lead and broke the bulb, then
kaboom... they should have filled the tank with water before doing
that sort of work. An empty fuel tank can be more volatile than one
with gas in it too, which some people don't realise.