the cng tank on a bus in perugia italy caught fire and started spewing flames like god's personal blowtorch. According to local reports, the bus was empty at the time of the inferno and, thankfully, nobody was injured. While the flamethrower-like jets of flame might look like something out of DOOM, this is actually exactly what the engineers of the bus' CNG system were hoping for -- spewing jets of fire rather than a massive explosion complete with shockwave-propelled shrapnel. in all probability the designers of the system would smile at the real-world example of the fail-safe mechanism being successfully deployed. as soon as the cng system detected the fire a series of valves were activated automatically to release the gas in a controlled manner. without this important safety mechanism the bus would have been spread across the mountainside along with anyone unlucky enough to stand nearby. While the flamethrower-like jets of flame might look like something out of DOOM, this is actually exactly what the engineers of the bus' CNG system were hoping for -- spewing jets of fire rather than a massive explosion complete with shockwave-propelled shrapnel. in all probability the designers of the system would smile at the real-world example of the fail-safe mechanism being successfully deployed. as soon as the cng system detected the fire a series of valves were activated automatically to release the gas in a controlled manner. without this important safety mechanism the bus would have been spread across the mountainside along with anyone unlucky enough to stand nearby.
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