[Rich Biebel]

Say a prayer for me......

I cut the tops off metal drums with a plasma cutter on a regular basis. Been doing this for years.
Most of the drums contained waste oil and other fluids....anti freeze, water.
I use them to put crushed oil filters in and than put the drums in a metal scrap dumpster.
I always remove the bungs before I cut the tops and check what was in them before firing up the plasma torch.....

A few pounds of pressure in an open tank is not going to blow up unless you add a spark....

Gasoline is dangerous as a vapor for sure and needs to be treated with some respect....

If you work on cars/machines your entire life you always know of someone who did something stupid and started a fire or worse.

I worked as a line mechanic for some time in a dealership.
The guy working next to me was so dangerous, I demanded he get moved away from me.
He was changing the fuel gauge sender in a full tank of a Jeep Wagoneer. He had fuel below him in a coolant catch pan.....He was working with a drop light and it dropped to the ground near the pan.......I yelled at him to get away from under there. He looked at me with a dumb look and said why as he bent down to pick up the drop light.....Nothing happened.....I left the area till he was done....
2 friends were working on a car in a garage that was part of a bigger group of garages and there was a bar/building in front. They had a fuel line off in the rear of the car....gas was leaking on the floor.... a drop light hit the floor, started a fire and burned down everything.....the garages and the bar.building.

Gas in the open or in a pan or on the floor......and a drop light is plenty dangerous....