BBQ Safety Tip! “Warning Exploding Lighter”

BBQ Safety Tip! “Warning Exploding Lighter”

Here is a little BBQ safety tip people should seriously heed. Today my wife and I fired up the BBQ for a little lunch break.  I had been storing my long stem lighter underneath the cover of the side burner on the grill.  I lit the BBQ with that lighter and set it aside as we cooked up some Shrimp Kabobs and sat down on the patio to enjoy our meal and the gorgeous New Mexico day.  About halfway through lunch we hear a very loud and very nearby BOOM! almost like a gunshot, we both jumped out of our skin then we hear a second sound of something hitting the air conditioner.  I jumped up thinking someone had thrown something over over the fence into our backyard but just as I was headed through the house I noticed a big chunk of the lighter & smaller pieces then realized the lighter had actually exploded and that second sound we heard was shrapnel finally hitting the A/C unit after being airborne a few seconds.  The photo is not how the remaining components of this lighter fell but placed where it originally began.  I never found the other parts and shards.

So the moral of the story and the BBQ Safety Tip is..”Warning Exploding Lighter” do not store your BBQ Lighter in the hot sun especially on a stainless steel BBQ Grill, it gets very hot and can and will explode!  I know, I know you're probably thinking Duhh and my bride thought the same.  Fortunately we were not any closer, if this had happened while cooking I feel certain one or both of us would have been injured to some degree.   I did learn a valuable lesson today although one I should have learned many, many years ago.  Be safe this summer and take heed to this BBQ Safety Tip “Warning Exploding Lighter”

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