Unless you are the fire dept. Then you can put ALOT of water on it. Like a fire hose with two guys holding it for about a minute and a half. The chemical fire ext. that we used did nothing. Kind of weird.

 

Um, maybe you forgot to notice the bit where he said "put that out quick and saved my S".

You think maybe he should have let his car burn up because all he had to try and put the fire out with was some water?

 

What I'm saying is it might have worked for him at the time, but usually when you pour water on oil fires IT SPREADS. Oil floats on water, the water makes the oil flow FASTER and spreads the fire even more.

Just because someone fell off a bridge once and survived doesn't mean they should do it again or tell someone else to.

The best way to put out a oil or gas fire is to smother it. What the fire dept does is spray the flame itself and the surrounding area. The first to bring the temp down if possible, and the second to keep it from spreading. Then they wait for the fuel to burn off. You never really see the fire dept spray the base of an oil/chem fire with water. Also those fires tend to be so hot that the water evaporates before it even gets close to the fuel source. On small fires the volume of water from a fire hose smothers the flame.

There's a reason airport fire trucks use foam to put out fires and not water

Seriously, I'm glad it worked for him. But he really took a big risk of making the fire worse. We also don't know how big the fire was, if it was the size of a candle or two he probably could have blown it out

 

TTIWWP

 

Show me how to put up a pic and I will. I could email it to you and you could put it on too. It is a very knarly picture that the police took right after the fire. I didnt have a camera on me but he gave me the photos he took.

 

This is a linked photo taken about 1 hour after the fire started.

 

OUCH.

 

wow, that sucks..GL

 

HAHAHA! This showed up in my MyS2K as a "Hot Topic"

 

Yes, because in close to 10 years we've seen this happen at a minimum of once a month.

In anycase, sorry for the dumb luck on such a "OG" kept car. I can't believe it only had 10,300 on it. Kinda of makes me wonder if the car didn't do it to itself because she's not being used. She tried to put herselfo out of her misery of sitting in the garage for the majority of her life.

Congrats on coming out ahead on the insurance settlement though!

Also, for those that don't have an extinguisher....I've helped a friend put out an engine fire by running to the front of the car and unzipping my pants. Both he and I really bonded that day. We unfortunately didn't stay friends...something about crossing streams.