Re: GEM Fire Burns House of Celebrity

["Dave Davidson" <davetex99@hotmail.com>]

But you'll never hear about an ICE catching fire.  Last year, a neighbor's 
Cadillac caught fire in his garage.  The smoke alarms went off and he 
managed to get the car in neutral and rolled into the street where it burned 
completely.  I think it was mostly smoke damage to his house, although it 
broke the garage windows and burned the wall a little.  A prompt response by 
the fire dept. saved the day.  You can still see the spot on the street 
where it burned.  Didn't even make the local weekly paper.  Actually, we get 
three different local weeklies here, and it wasn't in any of them, much less 
the majors.

The only time I hear of ICE fires is when it's on a major artery and I'm 
listening to a traffic report on radio.  They happen so frequently they're 
not news.

Dave


>From: josh <joshl@myrealbox.com>
>Reply-To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu
>To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu
>Subject: Re: GEM Fire Burns House of Celebrity
>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:28:59 -0700
>
> >The real story here is that a "$4000 fire alarm system"
> >didn't go off.  If this had been a gasoline car fire,
> >the story would've been how tragic it was the dog
> >died.  I can't recount how many gas cars I've seen
> >burned on the side of the freeway, and quite often
> >hear of them during traffic reports on the radio.
> >I feel a whole lot safer with 1300lbs of batteries in
> >my garage than 20 gallons of gasoline.
> >
> >My $.02.
> >
> >Mark Brueggemann
> >Albuquerque, NM
> >S-10 EV
>
>It would be interesting to see some statistics on gasoline vehicle fires.  
>It
>would also be interesting to see how that technology has progressed from 
>when it
>first started 100 years ago.  I say this because the recent wave of 
>Electric
>Vehicle Efforts is really just getting started, comparatively speaking.  If 
>we
>learn from EV-related fires at this relatively early stage, I think we 
>could do
>a good job of looking into whether those fires are less frequent than
>gasoline-vehicle-related fires, or potentially less-so if improved 
>technology
>and methods of use are put into place.
>




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