[pepsionice]

I don’t think the cop had ever operated a fire extinguisher in his life. I’d like to see the report on this one and how they explain the loss of the vehicle.

[SpaceBar]

My takeaway on that video is that cops have a wide leeway to endanger life and limb by driving like maniacs to hand out a simple moving violation.

[familyop]

"I’d like to see the report on this one and how they explain the loss of the vehicle."

It's highly likely, that only the mechanic would know. There's not a whole lot of technical inclination happening around offices these days. Listen to the slowing, irregular, renegade rod, as he stopped. ;-)

[An engine can start a grass fire, most easily in a dry climate. Notice how the color in the video is somewhat washed out in general. Engines tend to get hot enough to glow when run hard--on the *top* end of an engine that has *all of the rods hooked up.* Engines sometimes get real hot on the bottom, when a rod tries to get out. LOL!]

[21twelve]

PASS

PULL (the pin)
AIM (the nozzle at the base of the fire)
SQUEEZE (the trigger)
SWEEP (side to side)

Although I tried to do this with two extinguishers I had in my truck for a car on the side of the highway. Both of them failed. So keep them recharged!

[puppypusher]

I responded to a vehicle fire and I also had a portable Chemical Fire extinguisher that was the same size as that officers.

I found out the hard way that once a fire gets started in the engine compartment one extinguisher is not going to stop it.Even if your able to open the hood that fire is going to burn do to the amount of combustible material.

[cyclotic]

I’ve used a fire extinguisher on a car fire. It wasn’t worth the effort.

I pulled over behind a young girl as she pulled off the road with the engine fully engulfed. After failing to extinguish the fire, I asked if she had anything in the car she needed.

“Nope, it’s my mom’s car.”

Apparently her mom had nothing worth keeping in the car.

By the time the fire trucks arrived, it was a full on car-B-Que