I just thought I would share my lovely weekend..
Well, I was driving out to Lowe's this weekend to pick up some rope and cinder blocks for our christmas tree burial, and guess what?? Leah's truck caught on fire!!!
The ground wire from her amplifier fell out of it's mounting bracket and fell onto the power wire. I was sitting there at a stoplight with my windows down thinkin... man, somebody's car smells like it's burning. Within seconds the cab was filled with smoke. I jumped out, reached behind her seat(extended cab truck), and just grabbed the speaker box and amp and ripped it out as hard as I could, then ran around to the hood where there was even more smoke, and I saw the power wire was so hot the plastic was just bubbling off of the wire. I tried to grab the battery and just rip it out.. but it was mounted down, so my only choice was to grab the melting wire and yank. Here's what my face looked like a second later. :holycow:
But everything is fine. The fire department came out just to make sure everything was ok. When it was all said and done, besides the burnt carpet and back seat, we're gonna have to re-install her stereo, probably replace the back seat padding, and I thought the battery cable was fried, but when I took it out and looked, it seemed to be fine. It could have been a lot worse, so I consider myself lucky.
Well, I was driving out to Lowe's this weekend to pick up some rope and cinder blocks for our christmas tree burial, and guess what?? Leah's truck caught on fire!!!
The ground wire from her amplifier fell out of it's mounting bracket and fell onto the power wire. I was sitting there at a stoplight with my windows down thinkin... man, somebody's car smells like it's burning. Within seconds the cab was filled with smoke. I jumped out, reached behind her seat(extended cab truck), and just grabbed the speaker box and amp and ripped it out as hard as I could, then ran around to the hood where there was even more smoke, and I saw the power wire was so hot the plastic was just bubbling off of the wire. I tried to grab the battery and just rip it out.. but it was mounted down, so my only choice was to grab the melting wire and yank. Here's what my face looked like a second later. :holycow: But everything is fine. The fire department came out just to make sure everything was ok. When it was all said and done, besides the burnt carpet and back seat, we're gonna have to re-install her stereo, probably replace the back seat padding, and I thought the battery cable was fried, but when I took it out and looked, it seemed to be fine. It could have been a lot worse, so I consider myself lucky.
