I never gave much thought about it being flamable either until one day a customer brought in his truck to get a couple of brackets welded onto a storage box mount he had in the back of his pick up.
Just a quick job so I climbed up with the lines for the arc welder and ran a few beads.
Some leaves that had collected in the corner of the box were starting to burn and without thinking about it I grabbed a half jug of washer fluid that was in the box and dumped some of it on the leaves to put out the fire which it did, but a few seconds later when the washer fluid flowed over to the hot weld half of the truck box was covered in blue dancing flames.
It burnt out quickly and no harm was done.
Given the right conditions like a punctured tire spraying fluid on a hot exhaust in a dry field the potential for a big problem does exist.
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