Fire officials have determined the cause of a massive blaze at Thunderbird Racing Fuel in Cornelius, OR, on Tuesday, reports KOIN.
“On site, employees were moving super unleaded gasoline from one metal drum to another metal drum, the second drum would then mix in ethanol fuel for final use/sale. The process they used to transfer the gasoline was hooking an air compressor to the first drum and using air pressure to feed the gasoline through a hose to the second drum.
When this was occurring, the employee that was doing the process felt intense heat. It was discovered fire was coming out of the ports on the first drum. The employee tried to put out the flames with an extinguisher, but the fire had grow too large. The fire in the drum is likely to have started by static, officials from Forest Grove Fire said.
