"I don't see the problem(?)"
Posted on 06/27/2024 9:31:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN
NFL star and his family have survived a house fire that was apparently started by a Tesla charger in their garage.
Randall Cobb, 33, escaped from the blaze along with his wife Aiyda and three sons Cade, Caspian and Chance - and even returned to save their pet dog, Louie.
No one from the family was injured but the fire caused extensive damage to the property in Nashville, Tennessee.
“We are lucky to be alive,” said Aiyda Cobb in an Instagram post on Wednesday.
“The Tesla charger caught on fire in the garage late last night and quickly spread. We got out of the house with nothing but the clothes on our back and no shoes on our feet.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
no, it’s hybrid, and it’s cheap, the first few gens has sold out. by the time i can get one, the kinks should be worked out for this new line.
Aaron Rodgers’ best friend
FAULT????
THE CHARGER??
OR THE THE INSTALLATION???
Star???
Halon Fire Extinguishers: Halon extinguishers, although less common due to environmental concerns, are highly effective in suppressing electric vehicle fires. Halon gas works by interrupting the chemical reaction of the fire, effectively extinguishing the flames.The stupid people who purchase a Tesla for environmental concerns, also would not protect themselves with Halon gas because of environmental concerns.
Materials that bring along their own oxygen supply are impossible to extinguish with water. Like those underwater flares. Fire departments should know that. Looks like they wasted 32k gallons of water.
That’s my first thought, too. Was the charger/wires undersized? Was it fused/breakered correctly?
Only in a vacuum does sound not propagate (remember the Aliens catch line?) due to a lack of a "carrier". In all matter and material it does. Whatever caused your hearing loss, lack of oxygen (only ~21% of air anyway) was not it.
Randall “Tex” Cobb
He was in Fletch Lives. Played the part of Ben Dover/Bend Over.
Good Movie.
Does his homeowner’s insurance carrier know that he had a charger installed in his garage?
“Looks like they wasted 32k gallons of water.”
You aren’t as smart as you think you are. The water is not wasted. The idea is to cool what is burning. If it’s cooled sufficiently it quits burning, O2 supply or not.
One of the best players I ever saw at Kentucky. He did everything!! Qb, RB, Wr … even place kicker. When we needed a play, he was da man!
You are so funny. I worked as a senior technician at ITT, Sprint, then MCI, and after the securities fraud, bankruptcy,(of MCI WorldCom and WorldCom), restructuring and the subsequence purchase by Verizon. I was able to retire from Verizon after 31 years.
All, of our local and long distance switching centers and wire centers were protected with high pressure Halon 1211 systems, delivered from giant tanks connected to nozzles that shot out the gas like cannons.
The Halon gas suppresses a fire by displacing all of the oxygen in a room. If a person stays in the room for over seven minutes they will get light-headed and pass out. Of course if a person is trapped in the room it could be fatal. At ITT they had a Scott Air-Pak hanging on the wall just outside the Switch room for extra safety.
One of the places where I witnessed the Halon system being tested was a wire center at 1000 Cir 75 Pkwy SE, in Atlanta across the road from what became Truist Park where the Atlanta Braves now play. Back then it was just a scenic lake with a walking path around it. We got to watch through the windows from the raised parking lot of the 1100 building when the fire suppression company did a test fire of the system. The ceiling tiles were blown down in the 80' by 50' room and debris flew all around.
Another building where I witnessed the test fire was in one of the switch rooms at the MCI Southeast Regional Switching Center. From the hallway it sounded like a freight train. I got to go into the room just after it had discharged. As I already stated, Halon displaces all of the oxygen in a room. When I walked in the room (160' by 60'), that's when I felt the absence of air on my ear drums.
The production of BCF and similar chlorofluorocarbons has been banned in most countries since January 1, 1994 as part of the Montreal Protocol on ozone depleting substances. Halon 1211 is also a potent greenhouse gas with a 100-year global warming potential 2,070 times that of carbon dioxide and an atmospheric lifetime of 16.0 years.[6]Halon was banned because it depletes the Ozone layer. So how can you claim that it doesn't displaces the oxygen when it is blasted into a room like a cannon?
I never said I had hearing loss, I said that It was an odd feeling of attenuated sound because oxygen was not reaching my eardrums.
Wow. That’s intents.
Actor Randall “Tex” Cobb was born in 1950.
Pookie Jones was no slouch either.
My wife is a hard core Gator......she STILL has nightmares about that guy. 😏
lol. Yes, I’m sure.
The whole state of Kentucky threw a party when Tim Tebow graduated.
“The whole state of Kentucky threw a party when Tim Tebow graduated”
So did Tallahassee. 😏
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