主题：【原创】和橡树村兄：也谈实验室火灾 -- 苏迅

sorry I cannot type chinese now.

Just want to say that fire cannot be burning inside at that moment. Oxygen trapped in that kind of containers will quickly be consumed if there's fire inside. So if there was fire inside at that moment, only two phenomena you should have observed: an explosion, if the trapped air volume was high and the air-fuel mixture was good, or extinction, if the trapped air volume was low or the air & ethanol gas was not well-mixed.

When there is fire inside a container with a small opening, what you do is to loosely cover the opening - a piece of paper or your palm on the opening will do the job. This way the fire will go off quickly and pressure will not build.

Trying to move the container when still suspecting liquid burning inside was absolutely dangerous. If the container has a large enough air volume and the liquid inside is a better fuel, like gas, it might very well explode and spray the fuel all over the place and the person. This is especially likely to happen when the liquid/air is disturbed by the movement during transportation.

As to my opinion, the whole accident was not serious at all before the guy in your lab took the wrong action. 黄有财 was totally right about that.