Interesting Lunch hour.. Car fire

[bakerhillpins]

Ok, so not the most thrilling pics, no actual flames, and no pictures of big pretty fire apparatus but hey it made my lunch hour interesting. As I was just about to take the dogs out for a walk a tone came in for a car fire at the place down the street from us. Turns out it used up all the oxygen in the vehicle and essentially put itself out before it generated enough heat to pop the side windows and obtain more O2. So by the time we showed up it had pretty much taken care of itself. But any chance to use the equipment is worthwhile and always a learning exp.

Here are some pics of the incident.
Bryan

[bakerhillpins]

One of the oft forgotten elements of your local fire dpt is the interface to the community both before and after an incident, not just swooping in, putting the fire out and off we go. So in that light I offer up the following pic of us watering the flowers as we were breaking down the hose lines and doing a bit of overhaul. Community relations at its best!  

[GPULLER]

Gonna go out on a limb and say the fire started in the steering column area...
Times like that you wish it woulda burned to the ground!

[451-74Charger]

Hmm new Chevy....
Maybe a washer bottle heater..lol (or Cigarette)

[bakerhillpins]

Times like that you wish it woulda burned to the ground!

Im betting its a total, The gawd awful smell of burned plastic permeates everything. There isn't any part of that interior that is salvageable. So its a shell with a motor.

Maybe a washer bottle heater..lol (or Cigarette)

Yea, that came up as it was just in the local rag today.

Cause is someone else' gig, I just put them out.

[451-74Charger]

I offer up the following pic of us watering the flowers as we were breaking down the hose lines

Hope the pressure was turned down, not only do you flood thier car, but now you blast the flower bed. careful they dont try to sue you...

[vancamp]

I like the flower watering pic im on our local volunteer service and we had a pontiac gran prix catch fire we were able to save the rear tires it went up quick, but the woman who owned it had told her husband she wanted a new car but he didnt agree the next week it went up in flames.

[TruckDriver]

Hmm new Chevy....
Maybe a washer bottle heater..lol (or Cigarette)

Same thing I was thinking

[MoparManJim]

I offer up the following pic of us watering the flowers as we were breaking down the hose lines

Hope the pressure was turned down, not only do you flood thier car, but now you blast the flower bed. careful they dont try to sue you...

Well, he can always say there was a tiny small fire in there that he didn't want it to get loose. 

[451-74Charger]

Or he could be laking a leak, and using the "hose" to cover up ..lol

[Road Dog]

Didn't GM just recall a bunchs stuff for possible fires. Thought it was wiper motor related though.