Please....I hope that nobody buys into the Rosie argument that fire can't melt steel. Steel is born of fire and can certainly be melted by it. http://education.jlab.org/qa/meltingpoint_01.html The properties of an accelerant and the temperature that it burns at are only part of the equation. That's what starts the fire. Think of a coal fire......add a bellows.....get the picture. Another example that is etched clearly on my mind is the shipboard fire fighting training that I have done. A small half gallon container of diesel fuel with a rag hanging out of it lit on fire. Smokes like heck. Once the hull insulation caught on fire (less than 60 seconds) the temperature of the compartment went from 100 degrees to over 2000 degrees. It wasn't the temp of the diesel, but everything that was burning.

