A man’s lorry caught fire while trying to remove a petrol pipe while he was playing on his phone.
The unidentified driver is seen in a film filling the vehicle at a Total petrol station in Cortazar, central Mexico this coming Monday.
The man is apparently trying to pull the stream of petrol out of the car with a mobile phone in his hand.
As the phone communicates with the gas tank a flame burns out and spreads rapidly, circling the truck.
The man lowers the petrol cabin and gets away from the car while the course of flames surrounds the vehicle.
The fire explodes by itself one sign of the white truck, which is sitting near the petrol pumps and another vehicle.
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The fire department was called to the scene and successfully put out the fire before it could spread to other vehicles.
No one was injured but the man’s Chevrolet RAM 700 was completely destroyed by the fire.
Aurelio Cantu, Ciudad Madero’s deputy director of civil defense, told the local paper Milenio that the use of mobile phones at petrol stations is banned.
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Small electrical charges made by a mobile phone when it receives a call can ignite a flame, he said.
Cantu’s explanation for the fire was disputed by some sources such as the Institute of Petroleum Equipment (PEI) arguing that mobile phones cannot cause a fire.
However, he acknowledged that a battery on a mobile phone could cause a fire to ignite.
No one was injured in the incident.