I was inside fixing dinner and I heard a boom. Then about 3 min later I heard a big boom. Thought I'd better go look outside.
EEK!!!!!!!
A car about 50-60 ft from my car was on fire and the fire dept is there trying to put out the fire. Smoke everywhere.
(never heard sirens.. till just now)
The neighbors said it took nearly 10 min to get the fire out. The windows blew out on the car, the gas tank blew up, and the siding on the apt complex is quite melted.
The units here are 4 plexes.
I had to come back in because the smell was bad. I'm sure not safe to breathe that in.
WHEW!!
Posted by just don (Member # 1129) on :
Stay out of smoke.nothing good in it
Posted by Annie C (Member # 14) on :
Your first word of topic is The Perfect Word... Hope that's the first and last time you will ever experience that. Prayers and Angels...
Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
Annie...I agreed. I liked the word Yowza too!
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Hahaa!! I wasn't sure how to spell that. Maybe I even got it wrong!!
I can still smell the odor when our AC comes on. I pray it's only an odor. I haven't been outside to the front since my feet hurt, so I don't know if all the odor is gone.
I opened the patio door and it smells good outside. There's a forest behind me.
They removed the car sometime before 8 pm last night... about 2 hrs after the fire. I wondered how they moved that thing!! Would like to have watched thru my window but didn't expect it to be moved so quickly.
I'm anxious to see the siding on those aptms. Maybe I can see from the bedroom window.
My feet are bad again today so I haven't been out.
It scared me yesterday when I realized that the fire trucks blocked the only way in or out of our street. (not sure it was totally blocked)
If the complex had gone up in flames it would have been hard to get out, away from the smoke.
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
Glad you are safe! Not a good feeling at all! YOWZA is right!
Just so you know... Breathing in smoke from burning plastics is one of the leading causes of death from fires. ALWAYS avoid it as much as possible.
It is reported that black smoke from burning plastics (toxic) can be very dangerous, but breathing in any smoke has the potential of hurting you.
Glad you are safe!
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
And next time something goes BOOM and you hear it, check it out immediately you dip stick!
Posted by Dogsandcats (Member # 28544) on :
Whew - TC - had to read your post twice on the dip part. We Californians say it a little different....
Didn't want to have to run to protect TuTu's feelings...
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I believe you, TC! It was bad. I didn't stay long and the smoke was not right near me, though the fumes were. UGH.
Both of you had better make a RUN FOR IT!!! Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- I can't help but be brimming with curiosity.
As you did not mention anyone getting hurt or even anyone running for their life, I assume:
no driver, the car was just parked and still?
What caused it to blast off? Gas container or other sealed chemical in it that got too hot?
Aerosol can of some kind or a pressurized air/tire canister?
Arson? Insurance ploy? Aliens? REALLY high octane fuel? -
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Well... we don't know. Don't have the scoop. The hood was melted and the firemen peeled it off, so I suspect the fire began there. When I went out, the main fire was under the hood.
The car was just parked there outside the 4 plex. It was thankfully in the middle of the two aptms (2 upstairs, two downstairs, left and right) .. it could have been right in front of one of the garages...
But thankfully, it was maybe 15 ft away from either bldg.
People said they tried knocking on doors and no one came out.
Hubby and I laughed about maybe there was a meth lab in the car. We know a teen there was taken away in handcuffs one day. We do not know why. Seemed to be a nice kid.
MO is the #1 state for meth labs. Really bad here but now you have to get a prescription for pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) in our county and one north of it. They must have it to make meth.
They don't usually put them in cars, but do like contained RV's or campers. They can blow up at the drop of a hat.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
i think you need a prescription for sudafed every where now...you do here. for a few yrs. it bugs me...cuz i hate sinus infections and like to be stocked up before allergy season. of course living with mold means every season.
glad youre ok. scarey.
Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :
Dogs and cats...
OH NO! I wouldn't say THAT!
Dip STICK is what Roscoe P. Coaltrain and Boss Hog (Dukes of Hazzard) would call people who were rather ding batty, or not as smart as they were, which wasn't saying much! HA!
I'd not purposely try to hurt TuTu's feelings! She'd boot my butt off here faster than you could say "pull up them britches you goof ball you".
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Kayak, our county only did this within the past year. MANY counties in MO do not require a prescription. Hence the prevalence of meth, I suppose.
That's right, Dogs... TC walks on thin ice with me if she misbehaves!!!
She's on thin ice all the time!!! Posted by AuntyLynn (Member # 35938) on :
Yikes!
You were really lucky! We were driving home late one Saturday night on the Garden State Parkway ... it was dark, but we could see a billow of smoke up ahead.
As we got closer to the "rest area" we could see that there was a car stopped in the "On Ramp" from the rest area to the highway, that was totally ENGULFED in flames! (Shooting about 10' high over the car!)
As the traffic slowed down, we really REALLY GLAD that we had our windows rolled up, because althoug the burning car was at least 80' away from us - we could ACTUALLY FEEL THE HEAT from the fire, inside of OUR car!
Made me wonder if anyone was hurt! But we never heard anything about it.
I had a car catch fire on me once, when I was a teen-ager. The old chevy station wagon was having carbeurator (sp?) problems, with the gas jet? And heroine that I am - I took my girlfriend for a spin on the highway! When we pulled off, we could see smoke coming from under the hood!
I happened to park in front of a camper's supply store - and the nice man yelled "don't open the hood" and came out with an electrical fire extinguisher! Whew! He really saved two damsels in distress...
I'll never forget the forlorn look on my Dad's face when he showed up, hands in pockets. Poor guy. It was time to replace Mom's old clunker.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Yeah, I imagine there were huge flames here too. I just got there a little "late" to see it.
My former SIL was one mile away from an ammonia spill on a Houston freeway. She was very lucky because several people died from the fumes and even more had lung damage.
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