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ICE cars are dangerous.
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It looks like the high speed run broke something that started the fire. Lucky day for the speeder, but not for the cop.
Was it actually a fault, or just the hot engine igniting the dry grass on the median? Notice that he reverses back away from the burning patch and tries to put it out with an extinguisher, then more smoke starts under his new position.
Lack of a tendency to cause this problem is a legitimate advantage for EVs, of course.
The grass wasn't very tall and it looked like he was driving an SUV type vehicle (a large percentage of US police cars are SUVs). To set fire to grass from just heat requires you to get it up to the flash point and that isn't easy to do. When my sister was doing Geology field work in Utah the catalytic converter started some grass fires, but the converter was in direct contact with the grass because it was very tall, it took at least 15 minutes to get started, and it was the middle of summer in Utah which is considerably drier than Florida ever gets.
The US interior west can go 6-9 months with no rain at all and temps over 100F (around 40C). The relative humidity can get down to 15%, sometimes lower. That's why you hear stories of the bad wild fires in the west. By mid to late summer anything that grew in the rainy season is very dry.
Florida sometimes goes a month or two without rain, but the air never dries out like it does in the west. It is a peninsula surrounded by a relatively shallow sea in the tropics.
I think something like the fuel line sprung a leak and sprayed fuel on the very hot engine. He was driving pretty fast and may have pushed the coolant system to its limits. The fire also seems to stay with the police car, which is another clue the car itself was on fire. I just watched it again and his car was making some expensive noises when he pulled off the road.
swaltner
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I suspect it was just the hot exhaust system that caught the grass on fire. A similar situation happened in a nearby town last year. Hesston patrol car catches fire during chase which burned the officer's SUV "to the ground".
nwdiver
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Might be a slight overreaction, but the idiot was actively smoking and flicking the burning ash all over the place right at the pump.
SabrToothSqrl
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Daniel in SD
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The funny thing is it's extremely difficult to ignite gasoline with a cigarette. It's a Hollywood myth.
Maybe we should all drive diesel vehicles since it's even more difficult to burn than gasoline (technically it's not even flammable, it's combustible).
DFibRL8R
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DFibRL8R
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Says who? No slang dictionary confirms this. Making it up as you go along? MIUAYGA?
Says who? No slang dictionary confirms this. Making it up as you go along? MIUAYGA?
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