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jackiejenny · ‎10-23-2011

@ROMARY wrote:
If there is a pilot light water heater or furnace in your garage, I'd be very careful and be sure to leave the garage door open. I believe just the odor (gasoline molecules) can travel to the open flame and could start a fire and/or explode. Not completely sure, but I think that's what someone told me many years ago. Try using kitty litter to 'cover' the gasoline stain/odor. Which would eliminate (or at least, cover) some of those gasoline molecules/odor.

Romary, you are correct and conjured up a really bad memory that happened to a friend's child many years ago. She stored gas in an area that also housed a gas hot water heater. Her little girl was playing in that area when a fire broke out and caused third degree burns over much of her body.

The child went through untold agony and the mother never forgave herself.

missy1 · ‎03-10-2010

@ROMARY wrote:
I could be wrong, but I don't think it's a good idea to store gasoline in home garages, in the sunshine, and in car trunks. They could leak, or tip over, as what happened to O/P. Better to buy gasoline as needed at a service station; pumped directly into our cars. I'm only guessing that folks who need small amounts of gasoline for their gardening tools/machines/mowers usually store them in separate gardening sheds, away from their homes.

Mine have always been outside.