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Start pumping gas you have got to stay outside. once you go back in our car and come back out that static electricity can cause the flames. if you go back inside the car you have to touch something. touch the car door or the pump. if you don't, the odds are small, but you are carrying that around just like when you rub your feet. you carry that around and it can be very, very dangerous. megyn: you get out of your car, usually you pay first. you put your credit card in then you grab the nozzle. so it's not happening upon your initial placing of the nozzle in your car. it's happening later? when...

Fill up your gas tank. bit cost one teenager his life. this is an incidents a woman. look at this. i can't believe she grabs the nozzle. this teen wasn't smoke or talk on the phone. what caused his deadly fire and the one we are looking at here? trace gallagher has some facts. >> reporter: the answer is static electricity. that can ignite the fumes. and it killed his guy right he here. these are freak accidents. we pump gas 18 million times a year. but this has happened 1773 times. it -- this has happened 173 times. when you slide in and out of your car you create that static electricity. you ...

Shooting. prosecution said it had no idea. not sure how that could be. this comes as the third day of his bail hearing gets underway in south africa. a ruling could come today only on the bail. we told you the story yesterday. now we know what caused the freak hospital fire that left a little girl burned. a mix of hand sanitizer, olive oil and static electricity left the girl with second and third-degree burns. oil was being used to remove medical testing residue. she's battling cancer and will undergo a second skin graft today. a blast in kansas city like set off by a construction crew wo...

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Protected if lightning does hit the plane it will be conducted away from the sentencive instruments, and they have these static discharge wicks. if you look outside the plane, they have rods that stick off the wing and those are meant to help release static electricity that's built up when these planes fly into thunderstorms. they create their own static electric charge and attract thunder and lightning, so they try to do it that way. >> yeah, yeah. >> so it's not typically going to bring a plane down. i'm sure the investigation will show whether or not that had something to do with it. typica...