Posted on 12/26/2021 1:44:16 AM PST by nickcarraway
Good Samaritan helped move 2 children in the car away from fire, according to FHP
A woman was killed in a fire at a gas station Wednesday afternoon in Palm Harbor, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The victim was putting gas in her car when another driver backed into the pump, causing it to overturn and trap the woman against her vehicle, troopers said.
FHP said that the exposed gasoline erupted in flames, and the fire was extinguished by crews from several different departments.
A good Samaritan, 34-year-old Jared Pierson, helped the victim’s two children fight the uncontrollable flames, and using the fire extinguisher located by the gas pumps, moved the children away from the fire, according to FHP.
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Dreadful. RIP.
Horrific.
Those poor kids, seeing it all.
I’ll be needing to jack up my own levels of situational awareness, after reading this.
“I’ll be needing to jack up my own levels of situational awareness,”
Excellent advice for all. I sometimes buy gas a Sam’s Clubs. Almost everyone that I have been to can best be described as chaos. Impatient customers that can’t wait one additional minute for the line to move up and squeeze through and back into the 1st pump when it’s open or the ones that try to stretch the hose over the vehicle to fill a left side tank from a right side pump. Saw a couple of shouting matches and reckless driving afterward.
My policy is to only use Sam’s if there are no lines. Saving a nickel a gallon just isn’t always worth it.
In some ways NJ might be right, at one time I don’t think they allowed self-service, not sure if that is still the case.
Agreed. The stupid people are everywhere and a constant menace.
Same here.
If there’s a line, I’ll come back 10 minutes before closing time.
And I pick the front pump in the center lane which would, I reckon, make it kind of hard to go hitting the pump I’m using.
That’s why I will be SO glad when the whole holiday season thing is over.
No idea where all these people are coming from or why they’re all driving like they’re jacked on crank.
I’ve been driving *even more* defensive as hell since the week before Thanksgiving and it’s mentally exhausting.
It’s as though stop lights/signs, right of ways, speed limits and lanes have lost all meaning.
One night, coming home on the interstate, emergency vehicles started flying the other way and just as I was getting to it, they used the emergency turnaround and zoomed ahead of me.
For about 10 seconds I had the chance to pray it was something past my upcoming exit, but *no*, it was just up the road another half mile.
In a way I cannot even imagine, a pickup truck was rammed underneath the rear of a semi *that had been parked on the shoulder* with its flashers on.
The driver’s face was inches from the doors of the trailer and the whole front of the rather large truck was under it.
Immediately, I was stopped, surrounded and trapped by over a dozen emergency vehicles and not one but two “jaws of life” trucks.
Sat there for over an hour and half, waiting to get another half mile to the exit, and home.
The driver was moving his head and hands and survived.
Since I had nothing else to do, I was on FB for the local fire/rescue call page and wound up chatting with others also stuck behind the accident, giving updates, since I was the one sitting right beside of it all.
So many insane and horrific accidents in the last two months.
As happens SO many times, because I had a random thought and dawdled somewhere for a few minutes when I was intending to go home, I missed being there for or in the accident.
I really think God puts those “yeah, I should go piddle around in Dollar General a coupla minutes” thoughts in my head.
New Jersey still doesn’t allow self-service. A great boon to this handicapped old fart. Oddly enough, last time I was there, NJ gas was still cheaper than New York or Pennyswillvania.
I question why the overhead fire-extinguishing system wasn’t triggered. Most places I buy gas have the piping and nozzles in the canopy. Perhaps the state where this happened doesn’t require it?
Gas pumps are supposed to have shear valves that, when broken, stop the flow of gas. It sounds like that didn’t happen when the pump was knocked over.
Savage murder? Someone backed into the pump she was using so the pump pinned her against her car, and the gasoline sprayed everywhere... and then lit on fire somehow?
In some ways NJ might be right, at one time I don’t think they allowed self-service, not sure if that is still the case.
1941 law still in place. 100% full service.
Since coronavirus, traffic disasters are way, way, way up. Every single day, my commute home has been stopped by an accident. It’s a very high-volume freeway, so it’s not unusual to have a stoppage, but it is only about 10 miles, and this is EVERY ... SINGLE ... DAY.
What a tragedy ... That poor woman ...
If they’re not going to charge her, I’d pull the 66 year old driver of the other vehicle in for a driver’s test.
Walmart, Sams etc. You are at the mercy of the mob.
Observe this:
1. People parking outside of the lines.
2. Healthy looking people parking in handicapped spots.
3. Healthy looking people using the motorized carts
4. Nobody lets you in when parking
5. Garbage in the parking lot.
6. Dirty restrooms
I live in the South. I love Publix
We use Sam’s also...and it is a zoo. I think we save apprx 20¢ a gallon on a 32 gallon tank.. You are right about the lines. I drive on by if there are lines at the multiple pumps. We’re also right on the SC line, so we can go down there and get about the same savings.
Thumbs up, Mr. Pierson.
I can’t tell you how many idiots have blasted by me to cut me off then only get stuck behind someone further up the road from me who was going slower than I was.
This is NH. Home of hills and windy roads with one lane in each direction and virtually no shoulder. Where they think they are going is beyond me, but opportunities to pass are not always plentiful and even if you do, there are no guar about someone down the road.
A spark would do it with gas fumes.
I feel ya.
The only reason I know where the rare straight (cop-less)stretches of mountain road are out here is because I like to crack into the Harley once in a while.
;)
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