Re: RC: Cell phone danger...

[owens <owensall@sierratel.com>]

Dear Marsha;
This gas station warning made me think of something my husband told me
recently. about filling  containers.  Seems that it is very dangerous to
fill a container with gasoline if it is on a plastic bedliner.  Static
electricity can and does cause enough of a spark to cause a fire or an
explosion.  
Katee
> 
> Since, cell phones came up I just thought I'd pass this along to
> ridecampers.  I  want make everyone aware of the potential danger cell
> phones pose while fueling your vehicles.
> 
>         Submitted by Rusty Creed:
> 
>      Warning:  Cell phone use in gas stations
> 
>      In case you do not know, there was an incident where a driver
>      Suffered  burns and his car severely damaged when gasoline fumes
> ignited
>      an explosion while he was talking on his mobile phone standing
> near the
>      attendant who was pumping the gas.  All the electronic devices in
> gas
>      stations are protected with explosive containment devices,
>      (intrinsically safe) while cell phones are not.
> 
>      READ YOUR HANDBOOK!
>      Mobile phone makers Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia, all print
> cautions in
>      their user handbooks that warn against mobile phones in "gas
> stations,
>      fuel storage sites, and chemical factories."  Exxon has begun
> placing
>      "warning stickers" at its gasoline stations.  The threat mobile
> phones
>      pose to gas stations and their users is primarily the result of
> their
>      ability to produce sparks that can be generated by the
> high-powered
>      battery inside the phone.
> 
>      Please pass this on.

-- 
I'm not tense;  just very, very, alert.


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