Check out this car fire I tried to help at on Saturday

[chaoskaze]

Originally Posted by Rifle

That's nut. Almost a year ago at this point, I was involved in a car accident on a major highway and during impact, my fuel lines snapped and sparked a fire. The front end of the car burst into flames with me being in the car, my door being pinned under the truck I hit. Dazed after the accident, and I had to crawl out the passenger seat with the car on fire.


The fire was maintained by a semi truck driver on the OTHER side of the highway pulled over and ran across traffic with a small fire extinguisher, where he maintained the fire until the Fire Department came.


Shut down traffic for 3 hours on a Tuesday morning commute on a large highway in PA.

No major injuries. / RIP First Car. '94 Camaro.


Pics for reference.

Oh no those are my favorite camero inturns of look

[Rifle]

Originally Posted by chaoskaze

Oh no those are my favorite camero inturns of look

Immediately after this, I bought an '02 Firebird, same style body. Then I traded that in and bought an 86!

[ToySub1946]

I personally believe: This is not the proper place for an advertisement in this forum !

Maybe this person is a 'community sponsor', the rules then allowing it.

This thread/post should be removed in my opinion. I don't like being deceived.


Update after studying that video: I don't see any car made by Fuji Heavy Industries in that video.

[chaoskaze]

Originally Posted by Rifle

Immediately after this, I bought an '02 Firebird, same style body. Then I traded that in and bought an 86!

Funny thing is I don't like 02 firebird @ all.

[TheBracketeer]

Originally Posted by Elliryx

thats crazy, nobody got hurt?

That's the crazy part ... apparently not!

I was absolutely sure that the occupants had to have been either killed on impact or incinerated ... then last night I googled and found this:

http://abc7.com/news/van-slams-into-...a-mesa/971438/

So hard to believe

[DJCarbine]

I've seen a lot of aftermath of car fires, but only have seen one personally when the headlight harness on my E36 went up in flames. I figure it was smoldering 5 minutes prior to full on flames, I thought it was the car in front of me until oncoming traffic in front of me gave me strange looks without actually being helpful and saying "Your headlight looks like satans butthole after chipotle night". Pulled off the road, popped the hood and extinguished the fire with my trusty waterbottle. Still much smoldering and sparking, disconnected the battery in the trunk.

Cut all the wires, tied up the important ones like ECT/AC pressure switch/etc. and drove home.

Previous owner put in larger fuses to feed his crappy knockoff of chinese knockoff HID ballasts, one of them drew more current than Claus at the factory spec'd the wire for, and it started getting hotter and hotter at one of the wire taps which set the wire loom and insulation on fire.



If it was any worse, I would have liked to have a fire extinguisher

[TheBracketeer]

Originally Posted by stugray

I have NEVER witnessed a car fire in almost 50 years.

YOU sell fire extinguisher equipment and have seen FIVE?

I figured it out: You are Carrie!

I grew up on a major highway in country Australia ... there were many accidents along this 5 mile long straight stretch of road past my parents house ... and for some reason they always used to break down out the front. (Probably because it was the only house for miles and they limped the car there ... well before the days of cell phones.)

The worst happened when I was about 15 ... I was inside and I heard screaming ... looked out to see smoke billowing out from an old Ford ... I grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran out there ... then I heard a kid screaming ... the parents, both in their 20's were obviously in shock and jumped out and left their kid strapped in the child seat. I rescued the kid, then put out the fire ... Then walked away in disgust.

I also grew up around highly modified cars ... my brothers show ute (El Camino) was destroyed by fire.

Originally Posted by stugray

I love how the base of the light pole is even on fire from the electricals being shorted. Completely unrelated to the fire in the car.

Yeah I thought afterwards, it was lucky I didn't rush over there, there were live wires strewn everywhere from the traffic light and the control boxes.

Originally Posted by stugray

What kind of car was that?

It was some kind of van. Man they must have been traveling fast.

[Tcoat]

Fired 5 LAWs into a truck once (on a range) and couldn't get that sonofabitch to burn. The movies lied to me.

[TheBracketeer]

Originally Posted by ToySub1946

I personally believe: This is not the proper place for an advertisement in this forum !

Maybe this person is a 'community sponsor', the rules then allowing it.

This thread/post should be removed in my opinion. I don't like being deceived.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

Yes I have my logo and website on the video (because my son wanted to show me how clever he was with adobe premiere before he loaded ... yep ... true story!)

But I'm sharing an actual incident that happened to me yesterday because I thought others may be interested and because I am committed to getting all drivers to carry an extinguisher ... whether it be my bracket or someone else's I don't care ... just do it.

I have made no reference to my website or even my product in the sponsors section.

[TheBracketeer]

Originally Posted by Impureclient

Even better than buying a hand held extinguisher or a bracket inside the car to hold an extinguisher when the car is actually
already on fire this seems like a safer and more simple approach: Amazon.com: BLAZECUT Automatic Fire Suppression System, Automotive Extinguisher: Automotive

I agree ... this is the ultimate. Only problem is the price is prohibitive.

I also me a driver who races a Z06 professionally recently and they said that sometimes you have "small fires" in a track car and don't want the mess or expense of setting off the full system. I laughed "small fires"????? This was a girl by the way ... better driver than me, bigger balls than me!

[TheBracketeer]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Fired 5 LAWs into a truck once (on a range) and couldn't get that sonofabitch to burn. The movies lied to me.

You missed the Myth Busters show on that very topic?

I managed a band back in the 90's ... I thought a cool photo would be the guys standing in front of a burning car. Soooooo ... we dragged a wreck to an old quarry .... filled it full of firewood (below the window line) Added some fire starter ... threw in a match ... wooooosh. So there we are taking all the photos ... the band about 10 feet in front of the flaming car ... and we hear this "whooooooooosh" sound (Just like in backdraft) I shout "RUN!" ... they did ... just before the fuel tank went ka-boooom! Obviously the fuel filler hose burnt through, and the sound was air rushing into the tank ... along with flame. Ahhhhh crazy kids!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Fired 5 LAWs into a truck once (on a range) and couldn't get that sonofabitch to burn. The movies lied to me.

Next time, @Tcoat ........ turn it around ........


humfrz

[DJCarbine]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Next time, @Tcoat ........ turn it around ........


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Next time, @Tcoat ........ turn it around ........


humfrz

Originally Posted by DJCarbine

You guys joke but the fact of the matter is we probably did exactly that.

On exchange to a US base in Germany in 1977. Sitting in the driver ready room with 2 other guys and the supply Captain comes in. He says he needs us to do a job for him and off we go to supply. Get there and he points at this huge pile (there were 100s of them)of M72 rocket launchers that were Vietnam surplus and says "Take these out to the tank range and dispose of them". That was the total of his instructions! He sent three 18 year olds out to a range with a truck load of rocket launchers and no supervision of any kind.
We blew up the truck that was there (got in trouble for that one since it had been had been all set up with remote control and just put there for the tanks to take out later that day)
Fired a bunch into the old tank hulks scattered around.
Put a bunch in a pile and fired into them.
Put about 10 inside a tank turret laying on the ground and fired into that.
Fired some straight into the air with just enough angle to send them down range.
Blew up some trees on the edge of the range.
Probably a bunch of stuff that I don't remember.