Well, there was a faint hope that she wasn't the actual cause of the fire, but that's well and dashed now.

Dangit, Aqua.

Why would a beer can in a pot cause a fire?
Is it the alcohol?

Billyaabob said:

Why would a beer can in a pot cause a fire?
Is it the alcohol?

Toss water into hot oil and you'll get a steam explosion, sending hot oil flying everywhere.

If those catch fire (from the stove), and somehow spreads the fire into the pot (or more likely, you get distracted dealing with the other fire and accidentally let the oil in the pot catch fire), and you dump water on the flaming pot, the result is an entire plume of flaming vaporized oil flying all over the place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3F4c5o4J7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAJ_yiyNTvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gMdhjS2uJk

...that's why it is hammered repeatedly in Home Ec. and fire safety courses NOT to use water to douse an oil fire.

Dakkan said:

Well, there was a faint hope that she wasn't the actual cause of the fire, but that's well and dashed now.

Dangit, Aqua.

Aqua is magnet to problems to Kazuma

HappierParsley8 said:

Aqua is magnet to problems to Kazuma

And this time she managed to use water* to cause a fire.

Bravo, damegami. You really live up to your name.

(*With ~5% alcohol. Not that it matters.)

Well in theory you can extinguish an oil fire with water, a lot of water, the sheer volume of water required would have crushed whatever you are trying to save.

The lesson here is obvious. Removing kneesocks leads to problems. Oh, and clean up after yourself or something I dunno.

laisy said:

Well in theory you can extinguish an oil fire with water, a lot of water, the sheer volume of water required would have crushed whatever you are trying to save.

Well, let's just let this sink in for a second...

We had a gas leak fire about two weeks ago.

In the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

From underwater. It was burning all the way from the underwater pipeline up to the surface of the ocean.

The ocean was literally on fire for a good five hours before it was finally snuffed out with active firefighting efforts.

Water? Hell, no. They used nitrogen to smother the fire, because pumping water into it would only spread the damn thing near everywhere.

AdventZero said:

Well, let's just let this sink in for a second...

We had a gas leak fire about two weeks ago.

In the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

From underwater. It was burning all the way from the underwater pipeline up to the surface of the ocean.

The ocean was literally on fire for a good five hours before it was finally snuffed out with active firefighting efforts.

Water? Hell, no. They used nitrogen to smother the fire, because pumping water into it would only spread the damn thing near everywhere.

In general context, the concept of firefighting was using any material that wasn't flammable to prevent fuel (of any kind, including oxygen) to reach the combustion. In Mexico's case, they're fighting an active leak (i.e the flame was constantly fed by steady supply of fuel) and they can't cut the supply. Gas floats (obviously) and forms bubbles filled with fire that can't be stopped underwater.

Enter Nitrogen. Not flammable (except in certain specific conditions), when pumped from liquid state quickly evaporates, displaces oxygen and gas so cuts off both fuels at once. If it wasn't so dangerous to humans, we'd be using liquid nitrogen to fight fires instead of fire-extinguishers based solely of cost-effectiveness; unlike MAP (mono-amnium phospate, the white powder commonly used in dry powder chemical-based fire extinguishers) you can just take regular, plain, old everyday air from anywhere and turn it into liquid Nitrogen.

laisy said:

Well in theory you can extinguish an oil fire with water, a lot of water, the sheer volume of water required would have crushed whatever you are trying to save.

Good thing she can't use Sacred Create Water this time. She would've destroyed the whole neighborhood.