Van fire

[tommy1712]

Be careful lads, the other night the back of my van went up. I had a small petrol generator in the van and it spontaneously caught fire wile driving down the road with my wife and 3 year old son. It was off, hadn't been used in weeks!!! Just suddenly heard a loud woshing sound and flames!
i jumped out and dragged it out, wife and son got out fine poor guy was petrified, few things got burnt in the van but on the whole we got away lightly.

i thought my blow tourch must have started it but the gas was off and safety was on.

very scary stuff just be careful

 

[ShaunCorbs]

fumes

 

[tommy1712]

God knows all I can think was it must have had a small fuel leak and something sparked :-( not a good evening at all.
Now my tool insurance are being mugs wanting recepts for everything

 

[ShaunCorbs]

God knows all I can think was it must have had a small fuel leak and something sparked :-( not a good evening at all.
Now my tool insurance are being mugs wanting recepts for everything

been through that was a pain as i didnt have every single one

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Lucky you, glad your all safe!

 

[Phil]

Jesus, that is scary! I'm glad your are all okay.

What powertools were totalled?

 

[turnpin]

Glad your all safe and appreciate the advice....... Turnpin.

 

[lame plumber]

if you dont have a receipt an instruction manual will do normally, I have a box of all my old uns in the office

 

[Best]

Two things I am careful about in van are blow lamp - I keep it disconnected from gas bottle,
and batteries - I no longer keep cordless batteries lying loose since I once had a lump of steel wool burst into flames when it touched across a battery terminals.

 

[plumben]

Glad to hear it didn't end too badly,

I keeping the head off my bottle and keep the covers for the batteries to stop anything going in and sparking,
And I've got a 2kg fire extinguisher under the seat, don't think i'd be brave enough to pull something on fire out of the back of my van though

 

[tommy1712]

Cheers lads, my boy was in the van otherwise I would have just walked away. Quite with on the stupid list grabbing a burning generator with a full tank of fuel in it but my boy was strapped in the front and gidmt no if she had managed to get him out. Lucky had a extinguisher but where it was powder everythings bloody rusted now

 

[Old Account]

Be careful lads, the other night the back of my van went up. I had a small petrol generator in the van and it spontaneously caught fire wile driving down the road with my wife and 3 year old son. It was off, hadn't been used in weeks!!! Just suddenly heard a loud woshing sound and flames!
i jumped out and dragged it out, wife and son got out fine poor guy was petrified, few things got burnt in the van but on the whole we got away lightly.

i thought my blow tourch must have started it but the gas was off and safety was on.

very scary stuff just be careful

Are you sure blow torch was off?

I remember 2 years ago I had the same issue the whole van was in fire just because off the last shoot of gas in the blow torch. I even took the gun off the gas bottle but still had 1 shoot of gas inside the gun and somehow it went off right next to the wire wool which catches fire immediately.

 

[plumben]

Are you sure blow torch was off?

I remember 2 years ago I had the same issue the whole van was in fire just because off the last shoot of gas in the blow torch. I even took the gun off the gas bottle but still had 1 shoot of gas inside the gun and somehow it went off right next to the wire wool which catches fire immediately.

I always give the head a couple of clicks once its off the bottle

 

[tommy1712]

100% gas off and safety was locked. Got a rothenburg hot bag now to be on the ott side