At least 1,500 vehicles, if not more, inside of an estimated 20-acre junkyard in the Antelope Valley burned in a three-alarm blaze in the Antelope Valley Thursday. Firefighters responded to reports of a “yard fire” at 421 W Ave I off of Sierra Highway in Lancaster just after 3 p.m., L.A. County Fire confirmed to KTLA.
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Were they electric with cobalt in the batteries?
How many carbon credits is that?
More or less than Taylor Swift’s private jet?
More or less than John Kerry’s private jet?
That’s alotta cash for clunkers.
Watch the price on used parts for cars is going up now. Chit.
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We have to burn them first to see how much carbon is in them.
Were dogs riding on top of them?
GM – That’s alotta cash for clunkers.
We’ve been saying that about democRATz for decades!
So if they were “crushed cars”, why weren’t the fluids drained out?
@Tony R
There is a lot of stored chemical energy in a car’s plastic interior components – seats, carpet, dash, door panels, headliner, etc.
The metal burns, also. Very hot and hard to extinguish. Just as John McCain (or any sailor).
I watched some video of this fire and was wondering why they weren’t moving the cars that weren’t yet on fire away from the inferno.
Most scrap yards have heavy equipment able to move them.
I’ve seen the USS Forrestal video, every sailor on board an aircraft carrier has to watch that video during one week of firefighting training before going out to sea. It still scares the hell out of me. We had our own small fire on board the Kitty Hawk in Dec. 1973 between Guam and the Philippines that killed 8 sailors down in the engine room when a gas line burst onto a steam line and all hell broke loose that could’ve been far worse. As a plane captain I spent all night up in the cockpit of my F-4 Phantom riding the brakes on my plane being moved from one place to another up on the flight deck by tow tractors to keep as far away as possible from the fire which was on the starboard side up towards the bow of the ship. Thank God, that fire was not worse like the Forrestal.
A couple of years ago there was a tire fire in Kuwait that was visible from orbit.