James Pietragallo

And the other thing is, why didn't it blow up?

Yeah.

Reason is, Alan just filled the tank.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's fumes, not gas.

If you have a thing of gas, it's not that, you know, you can throw a match in it, it'll go out.

You know what I mean?

It'll go pshh, and it's just liquid.

The vapor is the part that's going to light on top of the shit, not the liquid.

I mean, liquid lights too, but it's the vapor coming off of it that's on fire, I believe.

Gas.

So they said a full tank has very little airspace, so there's very little vapor, and that's what explodes, not the liquid.

So Alan was lucky he wasn't lazy and said, I'll get gas later.

Because then he would have exploded.

That's what most people would think.

If you're an idiot, you would just think the more gas, the bigger the explosion.

This is what you need.

So they said that basically the Delta investigation said it was a clumsy arson attempt and the fuel level saved his life.

Nice.

But her explanation, because they talked to her about smelling lighter fluid in the bathroom that she was in, she told them that she took the wick into the bathroom at her husband's behest to prevent an explosion.