No one was injured after a truck burst into flames in Oak Bluffs on Saturday morning.
Fire officials say the cause of the fire is still under investigation. The incident took place between the roundabout and Goodale Construction Co. at about 11 o’clock Saturday morning.
According to Oak Bluffs Fire Chief Nelson Wirtz, the call came in at 10:56 am, and it took around 45 minutes for emergency personnel to put out the fire.
“It completely destroyed a Chevy 2500 pickup truck,” Wirtz said.
The fire chief said the cause of the fire does not appear to have been intentional.
Thankfully it wasn’t like the EV in Wareham that took firefighters 3 hours and 11,000 gallons of water to put out.
Pretty sure you’re not supposed to use water on an electrical fire. Maybe that was the problem, not extreme liberalism.
I’m sure you know more than the Wareham fire chief! Would you suggest pfas laden foam?
I know enough not to pour water on a burning battery.
Yes!!
It is designed to put out fuel fires.
Water spreads out fuel so that it can burn hotter.
I guess you would recommend first disconnecting the car from the grid . . .
Then smother fire with baking soda and /or a heavy blanket.
LOLOL. I am buying futures in baking soda and heavy blankets.
I hope they have laid in a good supply of these on SSA ferries.
Or, if you run out of blankets, you could try any of the class C extinguishers. I don’t give a damn about PFAs except to laugh at the people who fight over them and spend money that could go to our children’s educations.
Katherine, what is the fire rate for EVs?
Gasoline?
Has there ever been an EV fire on a ferry boat?
How many gas vehicles have caught on fire on Island?
EVs?
Have you ever seen a gasoline tanker fire?
Ummmm….Duh, yeah, one of the first things that fireman do is to disconnect power.
A defective gasoline car battery can explode from the hydrogen generated from over charging.
The world is a dangerous place.
Thankfully it was not a gas station or a gasoline tanker.
you know, there are 117,000 automobile fires every
year in this country.
That’s one every 5 minutes. if it takes 20 minutes for
the F.D to show up and put it out, that means there are
4 cars on fire right now.
Most will make the local news, like this one
— BUT if an electric one catches fire — for any reason–
it makes regional and sometimes national news.
That happens because they are extremely rare and
neophobic ignoramuses will make a big deal out of it
to confirm their irrational thinking.
Which is more dangerous?
A fully charged EV or 20 gallons of gasoline?
EVs burn, gasoline explodes.