Wed, 21 Jul 2010 8:58 am
car burnt down

2 days ago ( Monday ) morning about 7 am , while pumping the petrol , i saw a nice decorated Kelisa parking at the bus station across the road and the lady owner just staring on her car from a distance of about 7 feet away. Then I realised heavy thicked white smoke coming out from the front passagers seat and also from the engine cover. Less then a minute,  the fire  burning from inside of the car and spread quickly to the engine side. Within 5 minutes , the whole car was on fire and that it , the car was gone. From beginning until the end , i noticed that the lady driver can only standing there watching and did not even called for help

Question

a) What are the possible causes of the heavy thicked smoke ?

b) Car burnt down can claim insurance ?

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ygheart
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 9:06 am

a) I saw this happen b4 at shopping complex.. the funny thing is, got several ppls used fire-extinguisher to clear the fire.. but the fire getting bigger.. due scare of the danger.. in the end, the fire was manage to control when the Bomba came..

b) Donno.. hv to look on the policy insurans..

michelle89
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 9:17 am
Perhaps fire extingushers have many types filled inside , incorrect fire extingushers will creates more fire no doubt
ygheart
ygheart
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 9:39 am

a) Thick smoke caused by combustible moisturing materials.

The fire is normally caused by:-

  1. Excess ampere carrying wire with incorerect fuse rating,
  2. Improper / insufficient insulation of high ampere carrying positive wires
  3. Wire short circuit to earth as a result of vibration or hitting a moving parts.
  4. Fuel line damage as a result of poor maintenace, petrol is shooting to a hot source and shorting out positive and negative wires.

Prevention is by having a fuel cut switch to terminate power supply in order to stop fuel pump continous operation during fire. Another main power supply cut out is installed right from the battery and alternator supply. When engine is running, 2 source of power is generated. the alternator and the battery supply. You need to cut off these 2 supplies.

Daniel126
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