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Re:I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil by petewailes on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @09:34AM (#10499739)
The problem is understanding just how fast it affects you, and how little you need in your system. I imagine his line of thinking was "Well, if I just shout and don't breathe in, it'll be fine".

Simple mistake to make.

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Re:I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil by avar on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:14AM (#10500036)
Isn't the problem that he did breathe after shouting to those men, and then died? What if you remove your mask, shout, and don't breathe back in?
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Re:I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil by qbrass on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:38AM (#10500224)
The problem is that at high enough concentrations, a single breath is all it takes. Did you remember to purge your mask before taking a breath when you put it back on?
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Re:I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil by tehmaco on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:25AM (#10500136)
The gas will be inside the mask when you put it back on.
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Re:I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil by CamperBob2 on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @06:23PM (#10503473)
The thing about H2S is, it's every bit as dangerous as HCN, but it has a better PR agent. If you wouldn't take off your SCBA mask in a room full of HCN, "even for just a sec," then you shouldn't do it in a room suspected of being full of H2S either.

The fire chief would have known that H2S is hazardous, but his training unfortunately (and obviously) didn't communicate just how hazardous it is.

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