Propane tanks have pressure release valves that open if there's to much pressure in the tank, usually from when a tank gets hot in or near a fire. Keeping the tank cooled or away from the fire helps prevent the liquid inside from boiling and increasing the pressure , the tank will vent and the escaping gas could be ignited from the fire.
If left in or to near the fire the boiling liquid will build pressure faster than the vent can release to a point that the tank will rupture becoming an instant and deadly fire bomb.
The firefighter rolling the tank away from the fire prevented the tank from overheating where it would simply vent the gas out burning it off or if it cooled enough the relief valve would close and the fire would go out.
We recently worked a shed fire where the owner stored around 50 old military fire arms along with 15 50 cal cans of ammo (some of it 50 cal BMG) that his wood stove set on fire. We flowed water from 25 ft away until the fire cracker show was over,then moved in and saved the main building the shed was attached to.
If they had said or it was suspected that black power was in the building we would have been flowing water at maximum flow reach which is around 100-125 ft waiting for the bomb to go off. If they had said there was a lot of black power we would have pulled everyone back to around 500 ft.
Regardless of what is seen on tv, no ones property is worth the life of one of my firefighters.
Yes I am the Fire Chief of our little local fire dept.
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