| Propane Leak [message #187761] |
Sat, 20 October 2012 09:56  |
Bruce Hart
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Registered: October 2011
Location: La Grange, Wyoming
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My wife and myself just returned from a 1500 mile trip to Montana and back in our PB. I have started to do the winterizing, emptying water tank, emptying black tank, and a few maintenance items as well. We took off to a neighboring town 40 miles away when we received a phone call from my brother.
"The fire department is at your house because you have a gas leak and they believe it is going to blow up."
Truth of the story is the fire chief lives down the street from me and someone contacted him and he came over to investigated the leak. He found what he described over the phone as a pop off valve that was leaking propane. Being 40 miles away I asked him what can be done to secure the area, and he said he had never run into this problem before and wasn't sure himself what could be done. He was concerned for someone walking by with a lit cigarette that would cause the propane to ignite and cause serious bodily damage and personnel property damage. He ask for me to get back home as soon as possible. I told him with evening traffic that it would take about 50 minutes to get back home.
An hour later we got back home and all was dark and nobody was around the GMC. I went down to the fire chiefs house and together we went back to the motor home. He raised the door to the propane compartment and showed me where it was leaking from. I pushed and pulled on the 1/4" fitting trying to see if I could seat it closed, and than I twisted the end of it and it threaded down tight and no more leak.
The neighbor hood was safe at last.
During the day I had removed my water hose from the propane storage area and possibly the hose caught on the cap and and unscrewed enough to allow gas to leak out. With bad hearing and not able to smell for the past 35 years I was unaware of the problem that I had created.
Bruce Hart
1976 Palm Beach
1977 28' Kingsley
La Grange, Wyoming
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