Big Trouble in Little Burstadt

Saturday night:
We are just sitting watching some tv and we hear/see/feel the house shake with an explosion outside! I saw over the fence the light from it, so I ran to the bedroom (met Stephen in there, he was coming from the kitchen saying, "Heeeaaather?" in an are-you-okay-what-happened? tone.) We opened the shades about 6 inches to see a car on fire in the street that intersects with the front of our house! We backed away from the window, not wanting to be in the path if the gas tank caught. Then we went upstairs to get a better view.
We think that the battery might have exploded in the car. The bystanders put it out several times with fire extinguishers and then the fire department showed up.

We had EIGHTEEN fire fighters and eventually 2 police and 2 media representatives, as well as a healthy crowd of onlookers, and one cat in a windowsill looking on as we were! Fortunately, no one was harmed in the bru ha ha.

Then, along came the tow truck. He tried to back down the street from our street, hit our fence a couple of times and gave up. They ended up pushing the car to the end of the street and then loaded it.


This is the only picture we got of the car on fire. You can't really see it because it's so smokey. At first you could see flames about 3-4 feet high. They were coming from the hood, and were way over the top of the car.

Here come the fire trucks!



This yellow tool is going to be used to pry the hood open. We believe (from what we could spy from the window) that the hood was melted shut.

The truck seemed to have it's own water. After they had sprayed the car, they filled the truck back up from the hole in the street.

Local media get the scoop, and a little kitty watches the action from her perch above the street. We looked exactly the same from the opposite side. :)

Fire fighter social hour after the action.

This truck brushes up against our fence trying to back into the street.