A generous gift from Thompson Propane is burning brightly, sometimes, for the Morristown Fire Department.

In May, the propane gas company gave the department a gas flaring kit valued at over $4000.

“What it's for is if we, as hazmat technicians, run into an over-pressurized, high-pressure tank that has flammable gas inside of it,” Morristown Fire Department’s Gary Underwood said. “(Potential scenarios) can be like a bobtail (truck) that’s damaged and down on the road, or a rail car that’s damaged by a train wreck or something, or just even a 20-pound gas grill tank that is leaking at your house, or a 500-pound, you know, like the power fireplaces with. Any kind of propane or high-pressure tank that's taken damage and it cannot be transferred, it allows us to hook to it and flow the gas i

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