Multiple Magnesium Explosions Make For A Difficult Fire Attack At A Working Car Fire

[madiganmarauder]

SCBA and Fire Extinguisher-- critical for magnesium car fires. Water reacts with magnesium which will keep you there forever.

[orland9999]

No SCBA. This is a example of what NOT to do.

[jrsyff86]

and this guy aint wearing an scba why?

[blinko656]

Mabas if they thought you were a arsonist you have a GPS tracking system hidden on your car by the Police.. Don't worry.

[NorthsideBill]

Is the color of the fire inside the vehicle because of the video quality or is it white hot like that? And I wonder how long that thing was burning before the department was called and got there, looked like a while

[biggdaddy2001]

There is magnesium in airbags frames steering collums some times in seat frames also but I think somebody put more magnesium in side

[Larg127]

@biggdaddy2001 It's a Volkswagon. They have Magnesium engines.

[jtbpnw]

@Larg127 Thanks!

[jtbpnw]

Why was there so much magnesium?

[CRonaldo2507]

As much as I hate to tank up, I wear them on car fires. He's lucky he didn't take any magnesium to the face either

[orland9999]

@CRonaldo2507 The magnesium is hot enough to burn right threw the PPE. If there is heavy reaction its best from what I ve seen to just put out the fire around the area that has the reaction and let it burn out if need be. SCBA should be SOP on a vehicle fire and this is the fault of the officers for not enforcing this and writing up those that do not follow the rule.

[101southsideboy]

i am shocked the guy did not have a air tank on.most firemen use them now a days on car fires due to all the toxic flumes that comes from there and the closeness to the smoke

[nuclearthreat545]

So do you really set these fires up? Arsonist?

[ntfd125]

@nuclearthreat545 So everyone who catches a fire on video is an arsonist? Yes I realize he has more than one but its what he does. We have a guy in my county who films emergencies and he sometimes does beat the department.

[rrobertsnot5150]

@nuclearthreat545 that's really an asshole thing to say in the public's view

[juvmol]

looks like a dodge minivan