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http://tacoma.komonews.com/content/biodiesel-tank-explosion-sparks-alley-fire Tacoma garages go up in flames KING5.com Seattle Area Local News2.mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtxozhdqJlQ Fire puts biodiesel under scrutiny State officials look at classifying fuel as hazardous material http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=115223036291292200 Major Fire Erupts at Biodiesel Manufacturing Site http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june242006/biodiesel_fire_62406.php 3 hurt in fire at Sparks biodiesel fuel plant http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/30/3-hurt-in-fire-at-sparks-biodiesel-fuel-plant/ Fire Erupts At Biodiesel Plant Homes Located Near Osceola County Plant http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21104858/detail.html Explosion and fire destroys Idaho biodiesel plant, one dead http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x59576 Fuel from cooking oil is starting backyard fires http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30353276/ Home-brew biodiesel poses fire hazards, officials calling for regulation http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100425/GJNEWS02/304259998/-1/CITNEWS Biodiesel setup, garage, shed destroyed in fire in South Berwick http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100225/GJNEWS_01/702259726/-1/FOSNEWS Biodiesel Fuel Fire Causes Evacuation of Building http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3270457 Fire destroys Kerhonkson house http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/11/21/blotter/doc4b0776e5a94f4233019713.txt Considering making biodiesel at home? http://www.southboroughfire.org/biodiesel.htm Chinese takeaway biodiesel man in garage explosion horror http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/takeaway_biodiesel_fireball_horror/
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The one and the ONLY link provided with an actual careless home biodiesel maker being the cause of the fire is the very last one. If you actually read them all, you will see none were caused by some careless home brewer.
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I hang my head in shame, but I nearly burned my garage down last week due to an overheated bio processor. I've made thousands of gallons of bio and thougt I was past the point of such careless mistakes. Wrong. Darned near had a tradgedy due to a simple oversight. My processor is 100% homemade and lacks some of the safety features of processors on the market. In a nutshell, I had switched some electrical connections when changing a motor and wired around a kill switch (temporarily). When I left the garage and shut the system down, everything turned off except the heat, which I had forgotten to reconnect to kill switch. I'm still reeling from the 'what if' of this event.
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We are all human beings, right? Human beings make mistakes. I know someone who was making BioD in his garage, he had a pile of cleanup rags in a bucket in the corner of the garage. The rags caught fire from spontaneous combustion and burnt down the garage and all his processing materials. The local Fire Dept will not let him make BioD any longer.
I have even made the mistake of leaving my dewatering heater on overnight. Came out into the yard and smelled what smelled like a deep fat fryer. Realized it was my processing system ran to the shop and sure enought I had left the heater on all night and the oil was roiling in the 55 gal. drum and all over the floor of the shop. Thank goodness I had lots of sawdust to throw on it to sop it up. I then put the WVO/sawdust mix into empty cardboard milk cartons. I use them in the wood stove in the winter, they burn for 2 hours. People make mistakes, I would just rather not have the methanol and lye as the mistakes, I can handle WVO. I have 40,000mi on WVO and I love it, it has sometimes been a challenge but what is life with out challenges? During that 40k miles I have had 2 jobs where my employer paid mileage and on WVO that was just fine with me.
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