Embers fly for miles and start fires. Plenty of fuel for the fire in a car. Radiated heat also starts fires. Many homes are lost due to this as the heat sets curtains and furniture and paint etc on fire.
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), minnesota_bound wrote: |
Embers fly for miles and start fires. ransomnote: Yes. Who doesn't know this? Plenty of fuel for the fire in a car. ransomnote: To burn, yes. To almost vaporize and melt, no. It takes time and more fuel than that which could be present - so we don't agree. 'Radiated heat also starts fires. Many homes are lost due to this as the heat sets curtains and furniture and paint etc on fire. ransomnote: Steel, glass, tires and aluminum are not curtains/furniture/paint etc. No matter how the fire started, it didn't have radiant heat to vaporize the tires when it was driving on the road. The tires had to burn 100% down to dust and radial steel belts while parked without a nearby source of radiant heat. The car is in a gravel parking lot. The nearest grass 10-15 feet away is not right beside the car and it's short grass - not enough fuel. |