Mount Shasta MAP and acetylene burn testing study

Field tests measuring duration and intensity of MAP cylinder release fires. 3–5 second burns; 75% body-area burn risk if standing in the stream.

So this room would not fill up and explode. You might get a really intense fire in that corner and burn down the corner. They've done tests out at Mount Shasta in California where they basically pull on these things to ignite them, and when the gas comes streaming out, it'll burn for 3, 4, 5 seconds. As long as you're not standing in the middle of it, you're fine. If you happen to be standing in the middle of it, you can get pretty severe burns on 75% of your body. Anyway, this guy — they started the trial. It was a federal case, no jury. The judge heard the first two days of two weeks of testimony, was supposed to finish in May, and we were supposed to come in and talk about how this guy was really smoking methamphetamines and how we could prove it didn't happen the way he said. He and his girlfriend — he was in his 40s, she was a grandmother in her 50s — they lied about everything.