- Joined
- Dec 1, 2015
- Messages
- 8,898
- Reaction score
- 4,862
for random pieces of metal to catch fire? rarely hopefully. where i do it isn't technically called "firefighting" its damage control since i'm in the navy and if something like metal on a ship catches fire we eject that from the ship aka throw it overboard.My bad, you're totally right. Because metals are inherently good heat conductors, they rarely reach their ignition temperature. I thought metal burning was a rare occurrence on "normal" day-to-day and mostly reserved to factories, car crashes, train wrecks, etc.
If I may ask, you being a firefighter, how common is that?