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The Flaming Van
Hi folks,
Here is my adventure from last night.
I'm driving along, on my way home from work, and the next thing I know, I see a van parked off the side of the freeway with fire burning underneath it, with a man next to it waving his arms for help. I decide to pull over and do what I can to help.
After I get out of my car, I realize that the engine is on fire, and dripping burning oil. There is not much I can do at this point, So while the man is talking to his wife I call 911. We continue to watch, hoping that the fire dept. arrives before it burns much more.
The flames begin spreading through the engine compartment, causing more, and larger flames, at this point I decide that I'd better pull out my camera and take some pictures.
The flames began to burn the passenger compartment where the owners posessions were stored, and started licking the trees to the side of the road. As we watched the embankment began to burn, Yet there was still no fire engine in sight.
At this point we were starting to become very worried, and the seconds began to feel longer, and longer as they slowly ticked by...
Finally a truck pulled up, and while it wasn't a fire engine at least it was from the fire dept.
A few minutes later, a full assortment of fire engines pulled up, and they immediately got right to work on fighting the fire.
Within minutes they had the embankment put out, leaving only the car burning, and a few minutes later, they had that out too.
Thankfully, no one was injurred, and all were able to walk away from the scene without incident.
Thanks,
Ben
Here is my adventure from last night.
I'm driving along, on my way home from work, and the next thing I know, I see a van parked off the side of the freeway with fire burning underneath it, with a man next to it waving his arms for help. I decide to pull over and do what I can to help.
After I get out of my car, I realize that the engine is on fire, and dripping burning oil. There is not much I can do at this point, So while the man is talking to his wife I call 911. We continue to watch, hoping that the fire dept. arrives before it burns much more.
The flames begin spreading through the engine compartment, causing more, and larger flames, at this point I decide that I'd better pull out my camera and take some pictures.
The flames began to burn the passenger compartment where the owners posessions were stored, and started licking the trees to the side of the road. As we watched the embankment began to burn, Yet there was still no fire engine in sight.
At this point we were starting to become very worried, and the seconds began to feel longer, and longer as they slowly ticked by...
Finally a truck pulled up, and while it wasn't a fire engine at least it was from the fire dept.
A few minutes later, a full assortment of fire engines pulled up, and they immediately got right to work on fighting the fire.
Within minutes they had the embankment put out, leaving only the car burning, and a few minutes later, they had that out too.
Thankfully, no one was injurred, and all were able to walk away from the scene without incident.
Thanks,
Ben
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http://jziegler.smugmug.com
I don't know if I would call it scary, I wasn't the one whose car was burning, but there were a few times where I was taking a few steps back, and moving my car a few inches further away...
One thing did happen that was kind of funny, and unique, while we were waiting, a car slowed down and stopped in the road right next to us, we helped push it off to the side, but it turned out that they had run out of gas...
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Wow... That would be freaky and scary...
And I definitely heard the tires, it made me glad I was standing back, in addition, it convinced me to move my car back as much as I could(Only a foot or two more) But it bought the fire engines just enough room I think...
Thanks!
Ben
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