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Montana: Man sentenced for starting fire
Chad Truscott, 20, was ordered to pay $763,000 in restitution for starting a fire near Helena, Montana in 2007 with a homemade firework. After being originally charged with felony criminal endangerment he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of negligent arson. The fire burned 44 acres, destroyed two vacant homes, and required the evacuation of about 500 residents.
Mr. Truscott’s homemade firework consisted of a pipe welded to a steel plate. Inside the pipe was flash powder from dismantled fireworks with newspaper stuffed on top of the flash powder.
The judge ordered Mr. Truscott, who is in college, to work full-time during the summer in order to begin paying the restitution.
Video of close call on vehicle fire
It looks like these firefighters did everything right. However, something, a piece of the front bumper or a portion of a tire, explodes off of this burning Volvo in Florida.
In 1992, I wrote a safety gram following an accident involving “5 mph” shock absorbing bumpers on Volvo cars. After speaking with Volvo, they let out the info that their bumpers were rated at “10 mph”.In this incident, a BLM wildland fire engine crew, while in full structural PPE, was suppressing a vehicle fire that was directly threatening the vegetation.The BLM crew followed proper attack procedures and it kept them safe.While attacking the fire, one of the bumpers shock absorbing struts failed, sending the bumper from the far right shoulder into the center median of the freeway at a 45 degree angle.Unbeknown to us, during the initial bumper separation, one remaining strut was intact on the vehicle and released several seconds later traveling over 140 feet, bouncing once, before hitting a CALTRANS employee in the leg causing a fracture. If you must suppress vehicle fires to protect the wildland, it is all about proper training, proper PPE, and keeping up on changing vehicle hazards.
this is my county fire dept. this is actually one of the better companies in the county, sad to say not everyone pays enough attention to those sorts of things