Ouch 2016 burned down
 

Well back to the drawing board!

While a blaze that bad never happened to me, I did have fires on test vehicles. They were small and I was able to put them out without much damage.

Test vehicles have many temperature, flow, and pressure sensors installed. These will be in fuel, coolant, and oil lines. A failed test sensor can spray hot, flammable fluid throughout the engine compartment. This has nothing to do with a production vehicle, it is a hazard of modifying a vehicle to be able to measure what engineers need to know to develop the product.

I would not be at all concerned about a fire on a test vehicle. That doesn't mean the production vehicles are susceptible to fires.

Why would they not carry a fire extinguisher

Screw the fire extinguisher. I'd carry hotdogs, marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate bars. Plus plenty of beverages of course. Enough fire there to eat good for half the day.

Honestly I think GM got ahold of that truck. You know how the GMs like to catch fire.

All prototypes have a fire extinguisher. It's not going to do much good if there is a large fuel leak.

They probably did. But my guess is most people had the "oh well" mentality once it got going.

Most fire extinguishers are enough to handle a small fire, not a car fire, and most car fires are under the hood and undiscovered until its well past extinguishing with out Fire Dept assistance.

Let's look at the Pros of the aluminum body---with a meltdown like this--the clean up will be a lot easier, when it all melts together in one pile.}>

Must still be using the same brake pressure switch since 1988...

And foam in the rear wheel wells! :-X19

A hand held fire extinguisher?

When the eye witness states it took less then 3 minutes for the fire to go from this:


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to this:


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And only 21 minutes to devolve from Purr:


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To Poof:


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Note the fire extinguisher in the picture. Unscathed, like the vehicle occupants, one of whom probably had it in hand as he escaped, and then tossed it on the pile of powder to be hauled away. If the extinguisher were still good and not expended, it probably would have been kept, if by no one else than a passerby or the tow truck driver (or in this case the road clean up crew, as there was no vehicle remaining to "tow").




"oh well"? more like "oh HELL!" Imagine the heat emanating from that fire! Without a fire suit, it would be difficult to get near it. And while that extinguisher, which was clearly there, and clearly in the hands of someone, not in the vehicle itself, may have been expended... it would be likely have the same efficacy as a toy squirt gun.

If you haven't seen all the pics (clearly some haven't, else there wouldn't be any question about the fire extinguisher), google Chris Doane LLC, the automotive paparazzi that shot them. Probably the most terrific spy shot vehicle fire photos ever taken to date.

I have several puddles of aluminum in my garage from vehicle fires :)

Note: none of my vehicles caught fire. I collected the puddles lol

Those are like the most realistic flames I have ever seen painted on a truck................

Lol, just need a wet/dry shop vac and 120v.

Oddly, does this mean low life people will cut off pieces of panels to take to the recycling center with their cans?

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