Near disaster
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Near disaster
At 1.30 am last night my step son ran into our bedroom and screamed that the garage was on fire! I leaped out of bed ,picked up a fire extinquisher and ran down to the garage barefooted in minus 10 degrees celcius. It turned out that the fire was in our shared garage (with my two neighbors) and it was my neighbors car that was on fire. My workshop/garage with my F-100 is only three feet behind the garage that was on fire.After empting two extinquishers and driving my wife's car out of the garage, the fire trucks arrived and managed to put out the fire before it spread to my F-100 (there is a Santa after all) I was sent to the hospital because of smoke inhalation, my wife's car is a mess, and the garage is totaled but I managed to save my workshop/garage and my F-100 survived.Moral: be careful of motorwarmers which is probably the reason my neighbor's car caught fire in the first place.
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Boy, were you lucky! Someone above was looking out for you. Fire is a horrible thing to experience, especially at night. Thank God all of you are ok, and that your truck and stuff survived. Hopefully, insurance will help to recover everyone's losses.
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Erik,
glad the outcome was good... and that you are o.k. would have been bad to lose the truck, but much worse to loose you.. let the insurance do what you paid for.. and put a little extra in the collection next week. :-)
we need to start calling you "Lucky"
john
glad the outcome was good... and that you are o.k. would have been bad to lose the truck, but much worse to loose you.. let the insurance do what you paid for.. and put a little extra in the collection next week. :-)
we need to start calling you "Lucky"
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You never know when something like this can happen. I put a smoke detector in the garage also just for such an occassion. 
For $7, it's cheap and it may someday warn me that something is smoldering. 
I'm glad this story had a happy ending. John
For $7, it's cheap and it may someday warn me that something is smoldering. I'm glad this story had a happy ending. John
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A quick and easy to avoid that problem is to put some type of Auto fire surpressin system in.. I my self( Work on boats for alive so I have them around ) Have a halon marine system bottle in all 4 corners.. halon a little costly but U can have a water type put in for a little cash and it save on Ins in the long run.. If ur Ins does rebuilt the whole garage U can have it install at that time and most likly have the Ins foot the whole bill.. Best of luck on ur recovery..
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WOW, you sure had a close call. It's nice to know someone is watching over you.
I hope you are ok, and you new year is much better. Have a Happy New Year.
Also you have a great recovery. ..... *****
I hope you are ok, and you new year is much better. Have a Happy New Year.
Also you have a great recovery. ..... *****
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Thanks for your concern everyone. I'm out of the hospital and ready to rock &roll. I was lucky beyond belief. Only my wife's car had fire insuranse! Since my F-100 is still being restored I didn't have it insured yet, something I'm rectifing now. My neighbor ,whose car burned out, says he didn't have his motorwarmer on, but had just driven it into the garage as usual. It's a Hundai Gatz. Anyone have an idea how a car can catch fire just by sitting still in the garage??
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And Oil Leak that not been taken care of and maybe dripping on the exh. can be the reason for the fire. I have see it happen in boats. something as easy as a steam cleaning can provent it and finding the leak can stop the whole problem. Hope U the best on ur recovery..
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i just got a new insurance for my truck and is paying 700 nok a year for it.
has fire and theft coverage for up to 110.000 nok.
this is also a restore insurance since i dont have the licence-plates on the truck yet.
has fire and theft coverage for up to 110.000 nok.
this is also a restore insurance since i dont have the licence-plates on the truck yet.
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Originally Posted by airwick51
It's a Hundai Gatz. Anyone have an idea how a car can catch fire just by sitting still in the garage??
Seriously, I have seen where something like the alternator just decides to short and cause a fire.
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