List of cars that went down on the ship on fire, Felicity Ace

[Coog]

Open the door, strap round the car and winch it in then fill with water.

 

[gpaevo]

Looks like a skip of water but I guess if it works fair enough. How do you get the burning car in to it?

Some of them have a winch to trail them in, then it's flooded. Others have fire engines with a hiab crane on the back, so they lift them in.

And yes, they are just skip lorries. The ones we have are massive and have the turning circle of a super tanker.

 

[Boydie]

How often would EV's go up on fire here in NI?

I went looking stats and something tiny like 25/100,000 and more likely for a petrol car to go up

I know once they go up they are harder managed but just interested in frequency

 

[Gavlar]

Surely the numbers are skewed though? Hell of a lot more diesel and petrol vehicles at the minute compared to EV which would obviously make them a higher figure

 

[gpaevo]

Unless insurance keep a record of total loss due to fire, you would know the true stats as we don't record the vehicle type at a fire. It's simply recorded as a car fire.

 

[Coog]

Surely the numbers are skewed though? Hell of a lot more diesel and petrol vehicles at the minute compared to EV which would obviously make them a higher figure

Overall numbers would be but Boydie was talking fractions. In saying that EV's are generally newer so presumably you've less chance of mechanical failure causing a fire.

 

[Rocko]

Surely the numbers are skewed though? Hell of a lot more diesel and petrol vehicles at the minute compared to EV which would obviously make them a higher figure

Not as a percentage of total cars registered.

Swedish figures...

Only 23 fires were reported in electric vehicles in 2022 making up just 0.004% of Sweden’s fleet of 611,000 EVs.
In contrast, over the same period, some 3,400 fires we reported in 2022 from Sweden’s 4.4 million petrol and diesel cars representing 0.08% of the fossil car fleet.

 

[DJMCA]

As said, its not the frequency of the fires, although this will increase as the cars get older

Its the higher temps, intensity of the fire and the potential for reignition over a prolonged period that is the issue

 

[gpaevo]

As said, its not the frequency of the fires, although this will increase as the cars get older

Its the higher temps, intensity of the fire and the potential for reignition over a prolonged period that is the issue

This!

 

[Rocko]

Just try harder to put it out. Work-shy sods, it's not all rescuing cats from trees.

 

[gpaevo]

Just try harder to put it out. Work-shy sods, it's not all rescuing cats from trees.

The last cat I rescued from a tree was called 'Rocko' and he was trapped at the top of the tree by his lead. He'd been out for a casual walk on his lead and got jumped by a pitbull on the falls road. Off he went up the nearest big tree in the garden of Divis Tower and got his lead tangled in the branches.

(Genuinely a true story).

 

[Jethro]

The last cat I rescued from a tree was called 'Rocko' and he was trapped at the top of the tree by his lead. He'd been out for a casual walk on his lead and got jumped by a pitbull on the falls road. Off he went up the nearest big tree in the garden of Divis Tower and got his lead tangled in the branches.

(Genuinely a true story).

It was probably too busy on RMS to realise it was stuck

 

[RWL]

And multi storey car parks

Seems the inevitable has come to pass.....what a mess!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67075159

 

[Rocko]

Seems the inevitable has come to pass.....what a mess!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67075159

Except it was a Range Rover.

 

[ace275]

Says it was a Diesel vehicle that started it. I'm sure the Anti-Electric bunch will jump on it regardless.