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To: ansel12
Assume the worse when dealing with such. Don't look so much at probabilities as much as possibilities in fire safety. Sometimes you'll smell the NG before it hits explosive levels in a structure sometimes you won't. When you do you still can not judge how much the concentration is inside. But It can also still be at a dangerous accumulation level below you even in your own home and you not smell it. The people in Knoxville had just smelled a trace of NG a few days earlier.

Personally after smelling it I would react prevention and response wise on a worse case scenario basis. It will dissipate normally under ideal conditions. So will Carbon Monoxide too if allowed. Wood smoke also wants to rise and dissipate under Normal Conditions. Watch it as a front moves through though how it hangs close to the ground.

Normal Conditions are usually not what kill you though. It's just like when a low pressure system comes through you have to take extra precautions with using gas powered generators and vehicles etc around structures.

BTW I was also a fire fighter at one point. That training saved my life one night in a way not many would even think about. I had a kerosene heater going in my storage shed. It wasn't insulated and I left the door well cracked. The door likely by wind closed. I had been sitting down and felt a little light headed. I looked over at the wick and it was going dim. I dove for the door at that point. I knew it meant lack of oxygen by how the wick was acting. That was because I used to test for explosives and survival O2 levels with what was called a mining flame saftey lamp. Not something I had expected to happen but it did.

46 posted on 12/31/2009 9:46:53 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: cva66snipe

Being the guy that people call when they have gas problems, and dangerous gas situations, I manage to get by. If you call the gas company first, then they lock the meter and make you call me before they will return your service.


48 posted on 12/31/2009 9:52:06 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: cva66snipe
Personally after smelling it I would react prevention and response wise on a worse case scenario basis.

You understand that, that means calling the plumbing contractor, which is me, right?

52 posted on 12/31/2009 10:10:01 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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