DerbyDad03 wrote in
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Doug Miller wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote in
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That doesn't explain why you said "That document doesn't say anything at
all about leaks." For both LP and nat gas it says the leading contributing
factor was leaks and breaks.

I didn't read it as carefully as I should have; I was mistaken about leaks.

But not about explosions vs. fires.

This is just a question...

When I light my stove, the gas comes from the burner head, a spark ignites
the flowing (and floating) gas, things go POOF! and the burner is lit.

Isn't that an explosion prior to the fire?

Not really, no.

If there is a gas leak in my gas pipe and a sparks causes that gas to
ignite and my kitchen catches on fire, can we not equate the 3280 fires
with "explosions", or at least some of them? An explosion doesn't mean the
house has to be lifted off the foundation.

Some of them, probably. All of them? Or even nearly all? Then the document would be
talking about explosions, not fires. Explosions can occur only in a fairly narrow range of
fuel/air mixtures; either little fuel or too little oxygen, and combustion will not be sufficiently
rapid to produce an explosion.