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Accident near Vegas with vehicle hauling off road truck

Condolences to the dead, but thank got that race truck didn't have Hutchins Motorsports or Coleman Motorsports on it. Both are close personal friends.
 
The woman who stopped should never have to buy her own drink again. If that was me and my daughter I’d be eternally grateful.
 
87manche said:
have experienced car fire.

unless you catch it very early and have a bunch of big ass extinguishers you're not gonna do shit.
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FIFY

Once car fires start moving you're boned. I've been there when a 250 gallon bush truck was emptied and didn't get it all.

And if it's under the hood do not throw the hood open or it's gone. Pop it, Cram the nozzle under and spray. As soon as you give it air and vent its out of your control
 
The truck looks too perfectly placed to have came loose during the crash. I wonder if he might have unhooked it and rolled it back before it burnt too.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
The truck looks too perfectly placed to have came loose during the crash. I wonder if he might have unhooked it and rolled it back before it burnt too.
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This is exactly what I thought too when I saw the picture. I've seen good truck drivers unhook to save their truck or the trailer and load when one is on fire.
 
shortbus4x4 said:
This is exactly what I thought too when I saw the picture. I've seen good truck drivers unhook to save their truck or the trailer and load when one is on fire.
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Doesnt look like it in the video, looks like the guy driving was lucky to get his daughter out before the truck went up and the other truck was already off of the trailer at that point. I doubt he pulled the truck off of the trailer before pulling his daughter out.

Aaron Z
 
YotaAtieToo said:
The truck looks too perfectly placed to have came loose during the crash. I wonder if he might have unhooked it and rolled it back before it burnt too.
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Read what happened, it came off the trailer and another vehicle hit it, you can even see some damage on the rear of it.
 
Just got into an accident, vehicle under me has caught fire with the three occupants potentially burning alive, chase truck is cocked over the railing/embankment, my four year old daughter is in the backseat of my truck, just give me a sec to unload my 4x4 first though
 
woods said:
Just got into an accident, vehicle under me has caught fire with the three occupants potentially burning alive, chase truck is cocked over the railing/embankment, my four year old daughter is in the backseat of my truck, just give me a sec to unload my 4x4 first though
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I meant after he got his daughter out :flipoff2:​​​​​​

I know many guys who braved a deadly fire to try and save their truck/jeep/guns/whatever.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I know many guys who braved a deadly fire to try and save their truck/jeep/guns/whatever.
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Screw that. Its only metal and rubber.

Like when I talked about fire extinguishers about a month ago, its not really worth the effort of putting something out. The toxic fumes, flammable liquids, stuff bursting; that's a huge risk.
 
woods said:
Screw that. Its only metal and rubber.

Like when I talked about fire extinguishers about a month ago, its not really worth the effort of putting something out. The toxic fumes, flammable liquids, stuff bursting; that's a huge risk.
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Ya, I mean, if you can get close enough to pop the 2 front straps then roll it back, I don't know. When we had the big fire here, I thought about trying to sneak to my house the back way to get my crawler, cab over and some tools, but really all I was worried about was my family.

Like it was mentioned, a fire extinguisher won't do shit unless you get to it right away. Even whole vehicle fire suppression systems usually just buy you time to get out.
 
woods said:
Screw that. Its only metal and rubber.

Like when I talked about fire extinguishers about a month ago, its not really worth the effort of putting something out. The toxic fumes, flammable liquids, stuff bursting; that's a huge risk.
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I see fire extinguishers in vehicles as a aid for escape.
My brother and I have put a car burning in a garage out with garden hoses. I actually crawled under it to hook a chain to it so it could be drug out of the garage. We showed up as the fire department was being called and had it out as they pulled up. We didn't realize that we knew the owner until we pulled up they were grateful that we saved their house.
besides smoke inhalation and some minor burns we got out ok.
EDIT they were changing the battery under the hood and something went wrong while the wife was home alone.
 
M92PV4U said:
I see fire extinguishers in vehicles as a aid for escape.
My brother and I have put a car burning in a garage out with garden hoses. I actually crawled under it to hook a chain to it so it could be drug out of the garage. We showed up as the fire department was being called and had it out as they pulled up. We didn't realize that we knew the owner until we pulled up they were grateful that we saved their house.
besides smoke inhalation and some minor burns we got out ok.
EDIT they were changing the battery under the hood and something went wrong while the wife was home alone.
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That's really all any fire extinguisher anywhere is there for, to buy you time to GTFO. if you can actually put the fire out its bonus points. If the hood was down, it was probably from the battery venting as it was charging and the vapors igniting.
 
Slander said:
That's really all any fire extinguisher anywhere is there for, to buy you time to GTFO. if you can actually put the fire out its bonus points. If the hood was down, it was probably from the battery venting as it was charging and the vapors igniting.
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It seems like it was a red or yellow top the charger was sitting under the hood which was up until the hood shocks blew.
 
My father’s truck this winter, 2800 miles. Please tell me what a 5lb extinguisher would have done.

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I had to use a fire extinguisher once. Like most of us, I've started 100s of small fires while welding or cutting. Usually paint on what you're welding, or maybe a rag on the floor. You get used to either ignoring them or calmly putting them out.

I was doing an odd project at my old work. Adding sheet metal strips to an old paint booth filter wall. Which had 30 years of paint spray built up. Each little stich weld would start a little lighter sized fire, which would go out or I'd blow it out. As I moved up, one started, then all of a sudden hit the 2 rows of filters I didn't pull out, I went around the other side real quick to pull the filters out and throw them on the ground, in those 5 seconds it had moved to 4 more filters and the flames were liking the insulation on the roof. It went from oh shoot, to HOLY FUCK in literally 10 seconds. I ran over to the closest extinguisher I knew, in the sheet metal shop about 100' away. As I stepped out of the paint booth a 20 lb extinguisher caught my eye (covered in over spray :laughing:​​​​​​) I spun on my heels grabbed it and put the shit out. The whole ordeal was maybe 20 seconds and I think 10 more seconds may have completely changed the outcome 20-30 more and I'm not sure a single extinguisher would have done anything. It's really that fast, I would have never imagined.

The funny thing was all the over spray made the handle stick and dump the whole 20 lb :laughing: thank God it was a paint booth, the exhaust fan was a life saver. We spent the rest of the day cleaning up the mess.
 
I’ve taken hundreds of hours of fire extinguisher training. A dry chem fire extinguisher can be extremely effective at putting a fire out. But there is certainly a point at which you shouldn’t be close to the burning whatever it is. I put a neighbors Ford fire out with a 20 pounder, the stupid faulty cruise control brake switch Melted down and caught the plastic reservoir on fire. If the whole interior had been up in flames though I bet I wouldn’t have been as successful. Blindly spraying a fire extinguisher 20 feet from the source of the fire doesn’t do much. In training we’re shown we can put out pressurized expanding gas fire such as propane or nat gas with a fire extinguisher but you have to focus the blast at the base of the fire.
 
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