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    Posted: 06 Sep 2018 at 6:27am
Let me know when this trial happens.  I can find no reference to even one instance of this, and in our law suit happy culture if it happened I mam sure we would have heard about it.  Nearly all RVs with larger fridges and freezers rund down the road with their fridges on LP, or the choice is to turn them off and you know they don't.  Show me the fires.
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I love the spirit of freedom here!  "It's your pod, your life, you decide."  100% agree.  

Just gather as much information as you feel appropriate, then make your decision.  However, the next step is Take Responsibility For Your Decision.  That's part of freedom.  

If I'm sitting on a jury on a case where someone was badly burned in a trailer fire while running their reefer on propane while driving and they are trying to sue the trailer manufacturer or whoever, they will not get a pity verdict from me.  Their pod, their life, their decision, their responsibility!
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"The point is don't spend so much time worrying about all the things that could theoretically go wrong.  Go out and have some fun and if you catch fire and die along the way, at least you were doing what you liked to do.  It beats death in a rest home connected to a feeding tube."

This ^ exactly this!

Life is a risk, a long series of them.
Try to moderate the ones that make you nervous. Live with the ones that don't.

Its your pod, your life, you decide.

But for me, I'm going to be LIVING it.  Your Mileage May Vary. (YMMV)
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Originally posted by lostagain

It beats death in a rest home connected to a feeding tube.
Cry Oh my. Now there's an image that I didn't expect here.
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I say drive with your refer powered by propane if it's what you want to do and drive with it powered the battery if that makes you feel better.  Odds are, you'll get there all the same.  

The point is don't spend so much time worrying about all the things that could theoretically go wrong.  Go out and have some fun and if you catch fire and die along the way, at least you were doing what you liked to do.  It beats death in a rest home connected to a feeding tube.
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Is there gas in that tank? Here, I have a match...
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The best solution is to stay at home in bed with the covers over your head. But then you could be like that guy in Florida a few years ago that was swallowed by a sink hole while he slept.

There is risk in life. But what a waste to stop living just to be safe.
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Lostagain, point taken.  

If a fire started from an axle, brake, or electrical source on the trailer itself, would the fire be able to burn through a propane line?  And wouldn't that make the fire burn much faster, decreasing my odds of putting it out with my fire extinguisher?

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Posts: 3419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Sep 2018 at 12:33pm
HockeyDave,

It's an unwinnable discussion, I'm with you, never a high believer in statistics, unless you become one.
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Posts: 2587 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Sep 2018 at 11:45am
Dave, as for the fire damage you saw, keep in mind that most RV fires have either an axle/brake or electric origin.  Given the materials that they're made of, it's almost like dragging a giant matchbox behind you; lots of terribly flammable materials and a nice breeze to fan the flames if you're moving.  To draw a conclusion that the fire damage you observed may be connected to the propane system is quite a leap in logic and does not appear to be supported by any facts.  If propane propagated the fire, it is likely that the only thing left would be the melted trailer/camper frame and burned up tires/rims, unless the event happened right in front of a firehouse. 

There are just no statistics of fire incidents that suggest that propane refrigerators in use while driving are a significant cause of fire, either while traveling or fueling.  Again, according to the statistics, axles/brakes and electrical sources are the biggest causes of fire.  And, yes, no matter what the probability of the fire event, whether <!% or <.0000000000001% to the power of 10, you still suffer the loss of the RV and that's not fun (unless, of course, it was old, well insured, and you wanted to sell it to get a new one).
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