| Posted: 05 February 2010 at 01:45 | IP Logged
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lol! Actually, we been there, done that, sort of.
Guy calls for a tow because his Kia won't start at a billion degrees below zero, so we go to his house and pick it up...while we are setting down the deck, we see teeny little flames flickering from underneath the engine area by the firewall... We jacked that car off the deck in a heartbeat!
Then Shawn threw a chain through the tie-down on the deck and dragged the car a safer distance from the house, (and then moved the truck out into the street!) while I hit the underside of the car engine with the fire extinguisher.
I couldn't get to the source of the flame, though--some kind of combined electrical and fuel problem from the owner trying to heat up the car with a weedburner in a coffee can. Go figure. Even after pulling the battery cables the fire just kept re-igniting.
By the time the fire trucks showed up, the car was just a crispy shell.
__________________ Strange things done in the midnight sun....
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