Picked this up from another site; it highlights the dangers of having gas in our vans. No full details of sequence of events, what type of cylinder was involved, how it was stored, etc., but it seems that the he picked the bottle/canister up from his friends last night ahead of a trip this weekend, left it in the van overnight, and when he went to the van this morning - boom!!
We had an incident last year with a cassette stove we were using - the canisters should self seal but one of ours didn't - came home from tent camping, unpacked everything into the garage and left it. Fortunately I went back out to the garage a couple of hours later and smelt the gas in time to ventilate - there was still plenty of gas left in the canister but not sure if one of these smaller canisters would hold enough gas to achieve an explosive mix in a space the size of our garage, either way, I wouldn't want to risk it though!
If you have a gas locker, use it - if you don't have one then think twice about leaving any gas canisters unattended in the van (at least if it leaks whilst you are present you should smell it before it gets to an explosive mix). We do take a couple of these canisters as a back up supply - there is no room for them in the locker but they are the last thing to go in the van and the first thing to be taken out when we arrive to be stored outside of the van.
Man injured in camping gas explosion
We had an incident last year with a cassette stove we were using - the canisters should self seal but one of ours didn't - came home from tent camping, unpacked everything into the garage and left it. Fortunately I went back out to the garage a couple of hours later and smelt the gas in time to ventilate - there was still plenty of gas left in the canister but not sure if one of these smaller canisters would hold enough gas to achieve an explosive mix in a space the size of our garage, either way, I wouldn't want to risk it though!
If you have a gas locker, use it - if you don't have one then think twice about leaving any gas canisters unattended in the van (at least if it leaks whilst you are present you should smell it before it gets to an explosive mix). We do take a couple of these canisters as a back up supply - there is no room for them in the locker but they are the last thing to go in the van and the first thing to be taken out when we arrive to be stored outside of the van.
Man injured in camping gas explosion