You don’t need much fuel. Follow the bouncing ball..
Electric line ignites grass fire, winds spread grass fire, 700 degree grass fire ignites car that burns at 1500 degrees, glass breaks and aluminum melts. Front street in Lahaina with hundreds of cars and buildings on fire simultaneously was probably burning hot enough to melt damn near anything within a hundred yards.
I’ve seen cars in flames with nary a grass or forest fire in sight. Let alone a DEW.
My Attorney Father-in Law taught me a lesson long ago, “Shit happens.”
| In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled MORE EVIDENCE - 2 Miles from Lahaina Fire A Melted Car Surrounded by Gravel! D.E.W. or What? (IMAGES from video and video links), chuck allen wrote: |
You don’t need much fuel. Follow the bouncing ball.. Electric line ignites grass fire, winds spread grass fire, 700 degree grass fire ignites car that burns at 1500 degrees, glass breaks and aluminum melts. Front street in Lahaina with hundreds of cars and buildings on fire simultaneously was probably burning hot enough to melt damn near anything within a hundred yards. I’ve seen cars in flames with nary a grass or forest fire in sight. Let alone a DEW. My Attorney Father-in Law taught me a lesson long ago, “Shit happens.” |
It doesn't have to be a D.E.W. but this fire, and the pictures at the bottom of my post of the 2018 Paradise fire are not explained by standard 'car fire'.
Glass melted. The front windshield melted in the center of the car and in the video they film down a door sill where the window used to be, and you can (barely) see the sheen of melted glass sticking to one side of the door.
By your theory the upholstery heated the steel roof enough to melt/burn the aluminum roof rack so it crumbles to the touch? The engine compartment is hooded and enclosed by steal likely doesn't get enough oxygen to fuel a fire that hot and that long to leave just debris behind. But if it did, what reduced the tires to ashes? An engine fire burned the rear wheels? The interior or engine of the car is on fire, how does the tire bolted to the back of the outside of the car turn to dust, along with both rear wheels?
The fire was much hotter than 1500 degrees and burned consistently hot enough to melt all but the steel of the car. Not enough fuel, oxygen or heat.