Overview
- Security video shows a man at an outdoor seating area lighting a cigarette with a match and tossing it, igniting fuel vapors that sent flames racing across the ground.
- Employees quickly used fire extinguishers and cut the fuel supply, containing the blaze before it reached pumps or storage tanks.
- No injuries were reported, and the footage spread widely on social media.
- Local outlet G1 places the November 3 incident in Timon, Maranhão, though some reports do not confirm the exact city.
- The Timon Fire Department said the seating area where the flames began was not in the station’s fire-safety plan, and it announced specialist inspections and warned that gasoline vapors can ignite from even small flames.