hmmm

Where saddam

suspiciously Saddam shaped heat signature
- saddam heatsein

It's a boiler

You'd rather it was cold?

Geesh

Ya but... Actually I don't know enough about boilers but that can't be right.
Psh yeah! This metal boiler is just trying to live up to its name

Good hiding spot

Ok, so I don't have a way to measure that, but given the bit of yellow with the glowing red, that temperature should be reaching "GTFO" degrees C.

I don't know how you get water to that temperature inside a steel container without the steam going somewhere else, but if I had to guess that probably didn't last long and someone should probably turn it off

Most likely there isn't any water in the boiler and the flames are trying to heat water that isn't there. In case you're wondering this is a fire tube boiler and the flames pass thru tubes inside the water vessel. Normally this is prevented by a low water cutoff but it's possibly clogged with mud. This thing is gonna melt
- Ah, so no steam no boom. That's good
  Or well not as bad as it could be at least
Red means it is at least 1000F. Could be higher but cameras make hot things look hotter than they are.
- Ah, that explains why I can't take a selfie to save my life

What am I looking at? It appears to me that it's a metal barrel/cylinder of some sort and that the contents are so hot the metal is red hot in some patches, also somewhat damaged. Lots of pipes and some electronics in packaging but I don't know what sort of place this is. A factory maybe?

I believe it's a large boiler for a building, and whoever took the picture is in a bit of danger.
It's a boiler with failed refractory. Never seen one fail that bad before. Here's a pic of some being repaired. There is supposed to be 8 to 12 inches of insulation over that.
https://www.rasmech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Refractory-Repair-576x1024.jpg
The yellow U turn arrow on the right side of this pic is where it's glowing
https://talkintrashwithuhn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/boiler.jpg
- So wait. That implies that there are other parts of it that are significantly hotter, probably near the burner.
  Is some magical process happening keeping the whole thing from turning into steam and chunks of metal?
Saddam Hussein in his hiding spot.

I don't fuck with pressure vessels and especially ones filled with super hot painful death.

I would not have even taken the photo on my way out.

Nope nope nope.

Fucking same. This is seemingly a lack of water flow, so likely not a steam explosion, but... Fuck finding out, there's an emergency cutoff outside for this very reason.