The 14th Military Fire Brigade responded to a vehicle fire on BR 282 in Xasim at 6.30pm yesterday. A minibus from Chapeco caught fire while returning from Tangara, where passengers were taking part in a friendly match with a veterans club. There were 22 people in the car, all without injuries or poisoning.
According to the 63-year-old driver of the car, the fire started in the engine compartment. Seeing the start of the fire, the driver stopped the vehicle and asked the passengers to get out.
According to the fire department, about 2,500 liters of water were used to complete the work. The fire engulfed almost the entire car.
As a result of the fire, the minibus was almost completely destroyed – Photo: Fire Department/Reproduction/NDFire Technical Guide
Faced with this fire and the actions of the occupants who broke a window to retrieve their belongings, firefighters issued technical instructions: “This action intensified the fire, increasing the damage, including the burning of belongings. If the windows had not been blown out, the fire would not have been supplied with oxygen, and the damage would have been less, concentrated only at the point of origin.”
Source: Ndmais