The Hindenburg was a giant gas bag, filled with hydrogen (well a number of giant gas bags, contained by a larger bag. The fire seems to have been started by a combination of leaking gas, and weather conditions, leading to sparks. A number of victims suffered terrible burns from the diesel fuel used to power the motors.
A better analogy might be the Challenger explosion. In that case, you had a large fuel tank, with essentially a blowtorch aimed at it.
Hydrogen is flammable, and under the right conditions, explosive, just as oil is (for example) yet, for some reason people are scared of hydrogen.
https://apnews.com/article/explosions-cuba-fires-caribbean-fe8040ae6f88442a8d49f93574ba2c19
17 missing, 121 hurt, 1 dead in fire at Cuban oil facility
BY ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
Published 10:53 PM EDT, August 6, 2022
HAVANA (AP) — A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in the Cuban city of Matanzas, where four explosions and flames injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing. Cuban authorities said a unidentified body had been found late Saturday.
Firefighters and other specialists were still trying to quell the blaze at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, where the fire began during a thunderstorm Friday night, the Ministry of Energy and Mines tweeted. Authorities said about 800 people were evacuated from the Dubrocq neighborhood closest to the fire,
The government said it had asked for help from international experts in “friendly countries” with experience in the oil sector.
Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said the U.S. government had offered technical help to quell the blaze. On his Twitter account, he said the “proposal is in the hands of specialists for the due coordination.”
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