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Vehicle Fire Call

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Mopar1973Man

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Once again called out for another fire call. Been a busy winter time. Well this one was owner caused. Vehicle had a electrical issues and blew out a 40A fuse which the owner admits changing the fuse. Then he said the vehicle started and ran but rough. So he shut it down and hooked pu a battery charge and went in the house to warm up. Turned around to see fire rolling out from under the hood. His wife call 911 and myself and he was using snow to attempt to control the fire. Went I got there the fire was mostly out and quick blast of a dry-chem fire extinguisher kill most of it. Then I snip the battery cable and ran back fired up the pump and douse the remaining embers glowing. 

 

Lesson for the day. If you blown a fuse you better find out why the fuse blew before stuffing another fuse in the panel.

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A coworkers mother had a total loss of her house due to a similar issue couple months ago, Known starter electrical issues, parked car in garage shut it off and something shorted and burned the house to the ground, her dog woke her in middle of night and she was able to get out unharmed.

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A coworkers mother had a total loss of her house due to a similar issue couple months ago, Known starter electrical issues, parked car in garage shut it off and something shorted and burned the house to the ground, her dog woke her in middle of night and she was able to get out unharmed.

 

 

Hope my pooches would do the same!

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In the late 80's had a guy with a station wagon that had an intermittent short to ground for the rear plate and left running lights. An 8 amp fuse controlled the flow. When I got the car there was a pile of 8 and 16 amp fuses on the floor with a 25 amp fuse in the fuse box for those lights. The wire harness had burned from inside the tail gate into the left D post and all the way to the fuse box taking out two other wire harnesses with it.  

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