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I go to get coffee, and I see this:

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There I am, stopped at a red light for like 5 minutes watching this car burn. I drive past, get my coffee, come back out and it's still burning so I decide a picture is necessary.

The fire department is like 1-2 miles away, but I kid you not, it took between 10 and 15 minutes to arrive on scene. After I took the pic I left and saw them enroute.

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Sad as it is, I couldn't help but laugh a little. Think his insurance is going to renew his policy?
 
oh snap! That's what I was guessing!


that's gotta hurt
 
9M61 said:
The fire department is like 1-2 miles away, but I kid you not, it took between 10 and 15 minutes to arrive on scene. After I took the pic I left and saw them enroute.
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I had a car fire once. Pulled into the driveway of the fire station. It took them over 5 minutes to respond :wtf An 'off duty' fireman with an extinguisher actually put the fire out. The guys inside were 'Union' and had to wait until they were dispatched and nobody had called 911 yet since I was in the damn driveway of a fire station! :mad :shocker
 
n10sive said:
I had a car fire once. Pulled into the driveway of the fire station. It took them over 5 minutes to respond :wtf An 'off duty' fireman with an extinguisher actually put the fire out. The guys inside were 'Union' and had to wait until they were dispatched and nobody had called 911 yet since I was in the damn driveway of a fire station! :mad :shocker
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I'm not sure what their deal was here.... but it was a rather pathetic response time. I live in a small town, I know they weren't busy with another structure fire, and they literally had to drive under 2 miles.

This is the second time I've seen pathetic response times from my local fire department. The house across the street from me burnt to the ground. We called when the place was first showing signs, the father and two of us were able to get the children out of the house, and the house was basically completely engulfed before the FD showed. Again, it was a 10 minute response time to a residential fire, less than a mile away.
 
damn I literly said "oh snap" out loud when I saw this picture. Thats a fookin McLaren F1 , arguably one of the most bad assed cars ever. (certainly the best sounding) I guess the gold plated heat sheilds in the engine bay didnt help? Thats seriously a sad scene , if I was the owner I would be shitting brix. Those cars are getting hard to come by these days not to mention the initial cost of the thing.
 
I forgot to mention , hopefully thats a Fiero replica that just went through a car wash. :rofl
 
Damn, I bet the kid is saying,....... my Step-Dad is going to be soooooooo pissed!
 
Karbon said:
hot car.
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:laughing That is what I call burning rubber :laughing

My suburban caught fire in my carport. I just hope he settles with his car dealer and not his insurance. Lessons learned and all that.
 
n10sive said:
I had a car fire once. Pulled into the driveway of the fire station. It took them over 5 minutes to respond :wtf An 'off duty' fireman with an extinguisher actually put the fire out. The guys inside were 'Union' and had to wait until they were dispatched and nobody had called 911 yet since I was in the damn driveway of a fire station! :mad :shocker
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My son had a car fire on 101 S at the Masten Rd exit in Morgan Hill. There is a CDF Fire Station on the northbound side of 101 at that exit, and they were dispatched by 911 to respond. The quickest route to respond would have been to use the Masten overpass over 101 and then drive the wrong way about 150 feet down the offramp to where my son's car had flames coming out of the engine compartment. But the route they took was to go north on 101 up to the next exit (Tennant Rd if I recall) and then come back down south to Masten. By the time they got back the car had no glass, no tires, no interior - just a smoking pile of metal on the side of the road.
 
Car fires nearly always total it anyway, I suspect they don't hurry because there isn't going to be anything to salvage.

From an insurance perspective, you may be better off letting it burn, than winding up with a "repaired" vehicle that never works quite right or looks as good.

And what a shame...but I'm sure the owner has an agreed value policy on something like that, and should be okay.
 
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