Burning house with ammo

[X Count]

Ok who's house was it?!

 

[Homerange]

Could be any of us, take your pick !

 

[NZ_Fclass]

 

[brokeasajoke]

I've fought house fires where ammo starts popping. It gives me the creeps every time. Even canned food exploding freaks me out. Can't help it.

 

[RustyInBend]

Not mine ... I lost all my ammo when my boat sunk.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Not mine. I can't afford ammo.

 

[Webster]

Ok who's house was it?!

Just missed a dumpster fire at a rifle range.

 

[rjtfroggy]

21 years of firefighting in a city of 110,000, both interior and exterior tactics and I never once had rounds go zinging past me while putting the fire out.
Popping off yes, flying by no.

 

[SAM55]

I sure feel bad for the first responders (and my neighbors) if my house catches on fire. But, at least I have the decency to store my pallet of shotgun shells in a shed way out in the country, away from civilization!

 

[46and2]

Not mine ... I lost all my ammo when my boat sunk.

You too?
I don't know why I was fishing with all my rifles in the boat either.

 

[Turkeytider]

Ok who's house was it?!

Well, at the age of 77 and with a declining attention span and attention to detail, this solidifies my decision that it’s not a good idea for me to get into hand loading ammunition! I’ll just have to live with the reality that I’ll never TRULY know just how accurate and precise my rifles could be.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

One in a chamber would be the only dangerous one.

 

[Handi204]

At the beginning of Desert Storm I was in the local VFD, got paged out for a vehicle fire, rolled up on a Suburban the driver flagged us down, told us the he was hauling 20,000 rounds of 5.56 ammo to Maryland, we just let it burn lots of pops.

 

[jxb]

Yeah if you haven't been out to SAAMI and watched the videos on both drop/crush tests and fire, it's well worth your time. Basically most everything else you have in your house/garage is more volatile and if you watch those you'll see for yourself. I especially liked the cat running over and grinding into the concrete ammo only for it to be a non-event. Kinda shows why you can fly with far more ammo than a person would think would be allowed as opposed to lithium batteries which as we all know are pretty nasty when they cook off.

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saami.org

 

[std7mag]

Wasn't my house.

It's not the loaded ammo that is the problem.
It's the large quantity of gunpowder.
Both smokeless and black powder.

 

[Shooter13]

I've fought house fires where ammo starts popping. It gives me the creeps every time. Even canned food exploding freaks me out. Can't help it.

Been there and done that! Did a grocery store that sold ammo, pretty wild!

 

[Fire Dog]

Wasn't my house.

It's not the loaded ammo that is the problem.
It's the large quantity of gunpowder.
Both smokeless and black powder.

The Black stuff will be an issue… Smokeless just adds a bit to the flames.
I have mentioned this previously on a different issue, if an Insurance company finds out the you have stored quantities of explosive {primers} & highly flammable products {Gun powder} in your house they are most likely to use that as an excuse to deny any claim involving a fire….
Best check with your insurance company and declare that you have these items and see if they will still cover you for loss.

 

[WV Hitman]

My house burned down 1/2/2002. Lost 65 guns. Had 150+ # of gunpowder. It flashed up out the cans so it could be seen. Had close to 1000 rounds of loaded ammo. All popped off. When ammo does hat it only goes2-3 feet.
Worse day of my life.

 

[Charlie-NY]

My brother's new waterfront house burned down last year. He and his wife were away at the time. He had a dozen 1lb & 2lb propane tanks in the garage. The neighbors, who were 1/2 mile across the lake, kept hearing random explosions as the house went up in flames. I don't think anyone heard and of the shotgun ammo going off. LOL

 

[Joe Salty]

Then why do we pay Hazmat fees!


Joe Salt