69 Camaro destroyed
 

All the blood sweat and tears built into this 69 destroyed in a couple minutes. It hurt to watch this video.

http://www.chevyhardcore.com/news/vi...ire-in-trailer

When seconds count they're only minutes away. :(

That car is done. Look how the quarter and the trunk sagged and warped from the heat down the right side. Probably 1000 degrees in there. What a shame. Pull the cowl tag and slap it on a Dynacorn!

damn chevys always catching on fire.

Easy to talk sh!t from your armchair. Try getting a few blocks in modern traffic with lights and sirens on. I am responsible for the four souls on board and every person out there in my path. Sending tweets, pulling to the left and slamming on their brakes, speeding past us and turning in front of us, most just ignore us and keep driving. Still. I am held to a 3 minute response time on all my first in addresses. If I show up seconds late on the scene, I have to explain why.

We get some of the dirtiest looks you can imagine (from people on the phone) because we inconvience people with all of our loud noise and rushing around. I promise you, we ain't going for doughnuts.


Jeff-

Nothing would have prevented this outcome except a master cut of switch. It caught fire while they were driving down the road. Clearly, from a major short, likely a battery cable. This is exactly why I installed one on my car shortly before I sold it.

The message was a fact............I'm talking seconds, not minutes. You can't rely on someone else to protect your person or equipment. Even if 3 minutes is achieved that car was still a total loss.

I just had a fire in August and was lucky.

Here's a friend's car that wasn't so lucky a couple years ago:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...88445602_n.jpg

Before:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...50653755_n.jpg

Cause - Negligent packing and protection measures. Metal support rod was not secured or came lose and fell on a battery (not adequately protected) shorted and cause the fire while traveling down the interstate returning from a Canadian race.

We are responsible for protecting our person and property not someone else.
If you under-insure and are dependent on others you better be lucky.

Amen brother!! Firefighter/paramedic of 14 years here. When it doesn't affect them, they don't care when we are trying to get to a scene.

His point wasn't to kick firefighters in the balls. It's taking 100% ownership for your own life and possessions.

That's what I got from it also. :_paranoid

Arlington is a busy suburb . Had a bad accident there myself . 20 year old girl put me in the hospital for a week .
Hope it was insured .

Wow is that unfortunate. It would be interesting to find out what happened. I know my TA sits with the battery disconnected at all times.



Guys, Scott isn't talking bad about first responders. Unless you happen to be right there, nothing you could have done would have saved that car. His comment was correct. The point was you have to take the precautions yourself because it does take responders time to respond.

That was painful.

It's just a car. Sh!t happens. That's what insurance is for.

August 7th I came so close to experiencing their helplessness. :yes:

I learned an affordable lesson and now have a larger extinguisher and substantially more insurance.

True that they were lucky nobody got hurt but insurance money doesn't cover emotional ties. I've had my car for almost twenty years now and no amount of money is worth losing that history. I've said it before and I'll say it again....I wouldn't take a million bucks for my car.

Pretty scary thought Sieg. When I heard this happened to you I didn't think that it could have been worse but it could have.

Glad things worked out for the better. :thumbsup:

"It is my belief that if you create a car with your bare hands, it has a soul. It was extremely hard to let her go. So before I watched her leave, I had a few minutes alone. I kissed her on her intake and wiped a tear from her hood and said goodbye". :lateral:

I'm with Mark, it's a CAR. Now, I can understand the sentimental value if you have memories of building it with your kids/Dad, or using it with your family, etc...

I took a moment of silence for you and Red there buddy. :cheers:

I got that in Sieg's second response. It's easy to be sensitive nowadays with first responders being at the top of every city's budget chopping block.

I 100% agree we have to be responsible for ourselves.

One thing I do know from 18 years on the job, if you are standing there watching your stuff burn or your family member suffer, that time from the 911 call to me stepping off the engine... hours.


Jeff-

Jeff, most of us appreciate you guys. When I hear about you guys being overpaid, etc... I always say, Who are you going to call when you need help?

Thanks bud :drive:


Thanks for all you do :thumbsup:

One question.... theo owner was there....why didnt he just give those guys the key to the side door rather than sit there and watch them screw with it for 10 minutes to pry it open?

Not that it matters...the car was toast by then....

I dont care if the firefighter were there in 5 minutes..... nothing was going to save that car once the flames started.....it was all over at that point...

I wondered the same thing - why bust down the door when you have a guy with keys...


Jeff... I've always asked why Football players and Basketball players etc make such huge money - and teachers, firefighters, and police get basic salaries... go figure.


I guess I have too many police friends... so I know what they go thru and know what kind of money they make.


ALSO -- those with collector cars... best have an agreed value policy! Then I say let 'er burn. Steal it? Please don't find it. I don't want it back... Send me the check and I'll build new. :unibrow:

As a first responder, getting there is a big concern. Once the fire is going for anytime, and with us spraying water, it is a totalled car and trailer anyway. Nothing will be "saved". No need to hurry, and get one of my guys hurt.

Not just the keys to side door, he wasn't even making an effort to go unhook the truck? No doubt when he dropped that back door, the car and trailer were goners. Maybe he heard the sirens coming and didn't worry about it? I couldn't just stand there and watch the flames walk up the front of the trailer towards my $60k worth of Dmax dually. I guess I value my big white tow rig more than him.



Jeff-

Could the heat from the fire warped the frame of the trailer enough to cause the door to be jammed?Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!!!!:woot: :woot: :woot:
Kevin

Ok steal the idea...... Someone needs to offer a kit that has a smoke detector you can stick in the trailer. The alarm speaker is in the truck. You can shut it off (so exhaust fumes don't set it off while loading). Good insurance! Ok Featherlite...are you reading this?

nothing worse than fire... some pics of my old '67 after a garage fire at the last owners house last fall. At the time I was considering buying it back - that never happened...

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/sale2012/IMG_0242.JPG
http://www.onelapcamaro.com/sale2012/IMG_0243.JPG
http://www.onelapcamaro.com/sale2012/IMG_0244.JPG
http://www.onelapcamaro.com/sale2012/IMG_0245.JPG
http://www.onelapcamaro.com/sale2012/IMG_0246.JPG

when the heat is enough to melt the wheels... ouch...

The best option is prevention. Let's come up with some tips and suggestions to make us all safer.

Think about what you put in your trailer/garage in the way of Fuel or flammable items. I try to minimize storing fuel or solvent in my shop or trailer.
If you have a battery for the winch or lights, is it in a battery box with a lid attached?

If you think you are doing good having a standard 2.5 lb fire extinguisher in the trailer, think about this: it provides a 10 second squirt, then it's done!! I up-sized my trailer extinguisher to a 10 BC, but effectiveness is limited to small fires.
You should be carrying another extinguisher in your truck.

You can buy auto-triggering fire extinguishers that can be mounted in the trailer, or garage above the car.

Battery shut offs on trailer and car batteries.
If you do have a fire, don't open the rear door and allow air to get in.

Anyone else have tips or suggestions?

[QUOTE=GregWeld;454665]I wondered the same thing - why bust down the door when you have a guy with keys...

When the first fireman tries to open the door , it looks like the owner goes to the truck and gets the keys, then at one point he tries to go open the door or hand the keys to a fireman and is told to stand back
:question:

Jeff... I've always asked why Football players and Basketball players etc make such huge money - and teachers, firefighters, and police get basic salaries... go figure.

YES Firemen and Police are waaaaaaay under paid:mad:


ALSO -- those with collector cars... best have an agreed value policy! Then I say let 'er burn. Steal it? Please don't find it. I don't want it back... Send me the check and I'll build new. :unibrow: Guess I get waaaaaay to attached to some of my cars. :cheers:

I hope we can take something home frame this tread. It only takes one wrong to cause this and think about the hundreds of variables we have that could cause this on EACH of our cars.

What about our garages? And our sons and daughters that live above them?

I hear a lot of (not all) the contractors I work for moan about sprinklers, the damage from a leak, the expense of install etc, but I ask every one of them, ever been to the burn unit at children's hospital?

And I personally don't do enough in my own garage, I think this afternoon I will do one if not two fire preventative measure.:thumbsup:

WHat... I'd take a mill no questions asked!! :unibrow:

The Gibb Harrell ZL1 Camaro burnt up in a trailer fire when Bill Porterfield owned it, was it a pretty small fire?

EDIT: Yep, a pretty small fire and a big chunk of good fortune!
http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/...psbe2e165d.jpg