[cougarhound]

this is off topic, but as long as you don't have fumes blasting at your welding work, it will be fine. also, unless you were pumping fresh air into the tank, there isn't enough oxygen to actually cause much of a fire at all, just a woosh that self extinguishes and scares the hell out of you. you have wires running into your fuel tank for your fuel pump, and this has been the standard way of doing it for a very, very, very long time, and very few fires are attributed to it when the tank works properly and pulls a slight vacuume to pull the oxygen out.

Oh my bad. This is old.

 

[20swrt]

My 2021 Toyota Sienna caught on fire while driving it last week (12/28). There was no collission. The check engine light came on, followed by "Hybrid System Malfunction" then a message to pull the vehicle over immediatley. We pulled into a parking lot right away and got our two kids out of their car seats before the smoke turned black and we saw flames coming out from under the hood. We called 911 and the people in the business we parked in front of came out with fire extinguishers and a hose to help until the fire department got there. Wondering what Toyota found out about your vehicle fire? Ours had less then 25,000 miles on it and was regularly maintained at the Toyota dealership. Thank you for any information!

Sorry to hear this. Do you have any pictures of the van/engine damage ? I hope insurance takes care of you. Welcome to the forum.