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Gas???

In Colorado installing gas lines does not require a licensed plumber. Weird. Seems there is much more hazard than gluing ABS or sweating a joint.
 
"In Colorado installing gas lines does not require a licensed plumber. Weird. Seems there is much more hazard than gluing ABS or sweating a joint."

Which is why we have had a local mechanical/gas fitter testing/license since the 70's. A good thorough test, if you can read the code, and do the calculations required in it, you will pass. No trick questions, 100% out of the text of the code, but we probably have a first time failure rate of at least 50%, and that's being generous. They think they know what they are doing, but obviously not.
 
In addition, our local purveyor requires that we witness an air test prior to them reconnecting any service that has been discontinued for more than six months.
 
Ok what is going on lately???

Now a factory with large life lose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He said the fire broke out on the ground floor, which was used as a warehouse, and spread quickly to the upper floors.

"The factory had three staircases, and all of them were down through the ground floor," Mahbub said. "So the workers could not come out when the fire engulfed the building."

"Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower," he said.

Death toll in Bangladesh garment factory fire rises - CBS News

Bangladesh Garment Factory Fire Kills At Least 100 People, Death Toll Could Rise As Search For Victims Continues
 
I did not know it was this bad!!!!!!!!!!!

Nearly 500 Bangladeshi garment workers have been burned to death in preventable fires in the last five years. Among the worst industrial disasters there in recent years: 84 garment workers — mostly young girls — died in a blaze inside a locked factory in February of 2006. Twenty-one people died at a factory that supplied orders for H&M in February of 2010. (The same factory had had a deadly blaze the previous October. Yet another fire broke out the following April.) Smaller, less deadly fires happen even more regularly.

Tommy Hilfiger Pledges $1 Million After Factory Fire Kills 29
 
Years ago I was working on a job when a backhoe severed a 1.5" PVC gas pipe. It made a helluva noise as the gas rushed out. A laborer walked over and kinked the pipe, shutting off the flow.
 
I've seen the gas purvevor calmly show up, park the truck right there, get out with the clamps and seal it in moments.
 
ICE said:
Years ago I was working on a job when a backhoe severed a 1.5" PVC gas pipe. It made a helluva noise as the gas rushed out. A laborer walked over and kinked the pipe, shutting off the flow.
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Whoa - now THAT would have scared me.
 
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