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11-17-2021, 11:00 PM
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RV dealer lot on fire
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11-18-2021, 05:44 AM
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Friction fire ? Payment book and insurance policy rubbing together.
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11-18-2021, 05:59 AM
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It would be interesting to know how they attack and put this fire out. I'd think it might require an attack from above dropping dry chemical on the fire much the same as they do on forest fires. A lot of damage will be done before all the equipment is on line.
I would like to see follow ups of the story.
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11-18-2021, 07:24 AM
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Gonna be a lot of good salvage there to buy 
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A bunch of salvage title junk I rebuilt
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11-18-2021, 09:22 AM
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Forest River Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
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Part of the problem was emergency services were already up to their proverbial necks and beyond with widespread flooding.
Looks like the inventory was the company's rental fleet.
https://www.fraserway.com/about/pres...-abbotsford-bc
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11-18-2021, 09:53 AM
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I don't get the admonition to residents to "avoid running their air conditioners". There is no air exchange from outside to inside or visa versa.
The fire cause will be interesting for an unoccupied trailer. (homeless, vandals, arson, lackadaisical storage methods?)
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11-18-2021, 10:04 AM
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Couple of before and after, it was flooded before so perhaps electrical sparking started one on fire?
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11-18-2021, 10:15 AM
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Holiday Rambler Owners Club
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LETMGROW
It would be interesting to know how they attack and put this fire out. I'd think it might require an attack from above dropping dry chemical on the fire much the same as they do on forest fires. A lot of damage will be done before all the equipment is on line.
I would like to see follow ups of the story.
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They were preparing to do just that, but managed to get pumper trucks close enough to put it out.
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11-18-2021, 01:40 PM
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I surely hope the total damage was less than it looked like it could have been. I hate to see anyone's business get ruined. More importantly, I hope no one got hurt fighting this fire or mopping up afterward.
Tangible goods are replaceable. Lives are not.
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11-18-2021, 01:46 PM
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Parts!
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11-18-2021, 01:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by donr103
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Very small consolation for the damage incurred. This will be costly to all parties involved.
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11-18-2021, 02:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by donr103
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Scrap metal at this point
Aerial view as of today
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...er-hydro-lines
Maybe 2 dozen unscorched, maybe 1/2 dozen partly incinerated. Well over a hundred totally incinerated
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11-18-2021, 03:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by donr103
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Parts? Have you ever seen a burned RV? Nothing is left!
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11-18-2021, 03:10 PM
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Sorry to see such a disaster and I hope nobody got torched along with the MHs. I worry about this kind of thing happening when we stay in campgrounds. Almost everybody seems to "need" to sit around the campfire outside of their MH, the juxtaposition of which I find amusing, and often far closer to fuel tanks than is advisable, IMO. I had to ask a neighbor a few years ago if he was aware of my gas tank being 7 or 8' from his roaring fire. He sort of shrugged and took some wood out of his fire pit, which did little but send about a million little bits of burning wood into the air. I don't know if this insanity is allowed Outside, but it sure is accepted in Valdez and Homer that I know of. Some day, dozens of MHs are going up in smoke. I can not understand why campgrounds allow this. They should have a designated fire area farther away from MHs. Rant over.
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