Steve Firth wrote:
Steve Yerbury wrote:
Chris Bacon writes
John Wright wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:
John Wright wrote:
We're told not to use mobile phones on petrol forecourts but when did
you last here of a petrol station fire caused by a spark from a
mobile phone?

Last year.

Which was?

Did you ever get a reply of where and when this fire was supposed to
have been?

Http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in617547.shtml
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/34...fire_risk.html
http://www2.newsquest.co.uk/worceste...01/wen_news_la
test06ZM.html

The story I was thinking of was reported in the Telegraph and concerned
someone who suffered burns to his leg after a phone rang while he was
leaning against the car while fuelling it.

You might also note the comments in the article at snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

which is also calls this idea "false".