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Quite a scene Saturday afternoon at Northwest Highway and Walnut Street in Arlington Heights, Illinois as distraught owners of a burning 1969 Chevy Camaro take out their frustrations on arriving firefighters. A man and a woman with the vehicle are heard and seen on the video shot by ArlingtonCardinal.com screaming at firefighters, ”Oh, my God!” and “Water!”. The woman then yells, “Is this your first fire?”. The firefighters are off camera during this but are first seen around :40 into the video advancing a line to the fire.
The car was a show car that caught fire while being trailered home after being on display at a car show at a local high school.
A witness driving behind the trailer said that the owner noticed possible smoke, but thought it was road dust at first, somewhere between Vail Avenue and Walnut/Ridge Avenue on westbound Northwest Highway. When the driver smelled smoke, he stopped and saw heavier white smoke coming out of the trailer. The back door of the trailer was open when firefighters arrived. The vehicle became fully-involved with flames as firefighters connected to the hydrant and charged the line. The fire was extinguished within about five minutes.
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Everyone talking about back door open and all that. It took almost all the way down the page of comments before someone made mention of the fire exstingusher laying on the ground at their feet when the video first starts. I thought I was the only one to see it. Possible reason for the rear door to be open? The owner also head over towards the engine after it arrived or was closer, why didn’t the officer make at least verbal contact with him to get an idea of what they would encounter in that trailer? Again everyone all up in arms about the contents. The owner is right there and also has keys for the side door that he was going to open for them after all the smoke and fire was cleared, [ if you look closely ].
If you don’t want him to open the door take the keys yourself. Watching before the side door entry was attempted you will see the owner walk around the front of the truck to the driver side and I imagine he got the keys at that point, because it was only a couple minutes later he tried to walk over to the side door to open it for them. Again at that point in time if you are watching the film there is no smoke or flame emanating from the trailer.
Guess what all this jibberig is about is scene information and the collection of it. Think of it as instant pre-plans!