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Fished Henrys Saturday, four of us and we all landed 3 or 4 fish a piece. We were fishing between Wild Rose and the Fish Hatchery.

Any of you that use propane heaters in your shelter may want to learn from my mistake and don't change your bottles in your shelter or near any kind of ignition source. I've changed hundreds of bottles before and never had a problem however Saturday it was -10 F and my buddy heater just wasn't cutting it so I decided to fire up my Coleman heater. I took it into the shelter and began attaching a propane bottle when liquid propane started spraying out of the end of the bottle and all over my coveralls. The buddy heater was about five feet away and I knew I was in trouble, I unscrewed the propane bottle and started towards the door when the whole entire inside of the shelter erupted in a fire ball. I dove out the shelter with my coveralls blazing, I started rolling around in the snow and my brother dove on me. It took a while to put out the gas that had soaked into my coveralls but we finally got it out. Somehow the only damaged I suffered was some singed eye brows and eye lashes. The shelter somehow didn't catch on fire, probably because I hadn't dried it out from the last time I used it and there was a crusty layer of ice coating all the fabric (the fabric was completely dry after the fire ball tho). Not sure if it was the -10 that caused the propane bottle to fail or if something was wrong with the heaters connection but that is the last time I change propane bottles inside my shelter [].
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Wow. That's awful. Glad you made it.
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That is a wake up call that serious things can go wrong with those "little" bombs!
Wow! Praise the Lord you are allright!
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Wow! Glad your ok. I've had that problem in the cold, but didn't catch on fire. Good things to think about.

Windriver
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Glad to hear you are alright, and thanks for the warning. You prbably saved some of us from a less lucky outcome. Curt G.
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A trip you won't forget... Thank God you are alright!!

A timely reminder to all of us. I appreciate your sharing the experience. I know I am way too casual about both the propane heaters and butane stoves.
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Sure glad things didn't turn out worse [shocked]
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Glad you are ok. I have herd people say they watched as a propane tank valve was replaced at -40 and there was very little of the liquid that would turn to a gas. Propane is a heavy gas so it settles into the lowest area.
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Wow! An amazing save!

Glad you walked away unhurt!
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wow glad ur ok something similar happened to us sat up strawberry took bottle off mr heater put new one on gas leaking ,and stupid me i tried again hit the ignition and the thing flared up everybody got out luckily.
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Whew! Scary deal. Glad you are okay. That's one to remember, though.
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Thank you everybody. It could have turned out much worse. I am so grateful I didn't take my daughter that day.
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