Re: Interesting, the things you'll find...
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:16 pm
If it happens at a Disney park its world news. I read this first thing this morning on-line. I wondered how 4 people got hurt getting out of the truck but a later story said only one needed to go to the hospital and she jumped out of the truck. I'm guessing she panicked a bit, too many movie cars blowing up.
I know that through much of KS the animals are not able to get to the guests, Disney just hides this very well. I'm going to guess that many of the animals are very used to people being around and unless someone does something stupid (go figure a guest doing something stupid) they wont pay too much attention. My first thought when I read the first news story that said the CM got the vehicle to a safe area and evacted was that the CM was on the ball, didnt panick and did a great job of handling the situation.
I've dealt with a lot of vehicle fires with almost 20 years in the towing industry and I know that other than old VW bugs/busses/corvettes that burn really well it often takes a bit of work to get a car burning really good. Most of the burn jobs I have seen are intentional and someone has added an accellerent such as gas to get the car burning good. I'm guessing the CM used the fire extingisher thats on the truck to put the fire out before the FD got there. Really, unless its a good fuel leak its not going to far, we have used the same chassis in out tow trucks for more than 10 years now, we had one catch on fire some years ago, it was a fuel leak. My driver panicked and drove the truck onto the sidewalk and did more damage than the fire. I hope the bosses give the CM a pat on the back for a job well done.
Steve
I know that through much of KS the animals are not able to get to the guests, Disney just hides this very well. I'm going to guess that many of the animals are very used to people being around and unless someone does something stupid (go figure a guest doing something stupid) they wont pay too much attention. My first thought when I read the first news story that said the CM got the vehicle to a safe area and evacted was that the CM was on the ball, didnt panick and did a great job of handling the situation.
I've dealt with a lot of vehicle fires with almost 20 years in the towing industry and I know that other than old VW bugs/busses/corvettes that burn really well it often takes a bit of work to get a car burning really good. Most of the burn jobs I have seen are intentional and someone has added an accellerent such as gas to get the car burning good. I'm guessing the CM used the fire extingisher thats on the truck to put the fire out before the FD got there. Really, unless its a good fuel leak its not going to far, we have used the same chassis in out tow trucks for more than 10 years now, we had one catch on fire some years ago, it was a fuel leak. My driver panicked and drove the truck onto the sidewalk and did more damage than the fire. I hope the bosses give the CM a pat on the back for a job well done.
Steve