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Now that’s what you call fire water! Dakota man discovers his tap water is flammable… and he has been washing his teeth and bathing in it for years
Tom Gardner
Jan. 4, 2014
A stunned homeowner has filmed himself setting fire to highly flammable water gushing from his bathroom tap.
In the clip uploaded to YouTube, Jacob Haughney produces a intensely bright yellow fireball to erupt from a flowing tap by putting a lighter flame to the liquid.
Mr Haughney, who works on oil fields near his home in North Dakota, discovered the worrying phenomenon while in the shower.
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Spark: Jacob Haughney puts a lighter to his tap water, left, almost instantly igniting a bright yellow flame, right
'Just found out something out about the tap water we bathe in and that we use to brush our teeth and it's pretty weird,' he said.