UncleWillie
Rarely serious.
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2010
- Location
- Vale
As I got close to the u pull yard I started seeing smoke. I pulled on down to the scale, and asked the gal what was happening, and immediately 3 fire trucks pulled in behind me.
Someone had pulled a fuel tank out of the scrap pile and it sparked, and the conflagration was on.
I was told by a fire chief to ge my truck over in the grass, so I did. I pulled down behind a sign where I could not get back out without help.
The yard has no hydrant, so a call went out for tankers, and ever department in the area sent theirs. I think there were 40 of them. THen there were a half a dozen ambulances, a ton of smaller pickup truck sized rescue vehicles, an ambulance trailer, and even a red cross car. Soon there were pop up canopies everywhere. It was so hot that the firemen were working 3o minute shifts then going to an ambulance or the hospital trailer to be checked out and cool off.
Then a fireman told me I had to move my truck. I asked him exactly where he expected me to take it. My truck is hooked to the trailer that this Olds is on.
He pointed to a spot behind the scale house. I asked if he had ever tried to drive a trailers sideways.
I sat in the air conditioned office for a while, then went out in the yard to find a door handle for #7. I had one at home, but I had nothing else to do. It only cost me $10, and gave me something to do while breathing the fumes from the fire.
When the fire was out, I found the fire marshall walking around, and asked how many departments responded. He said way too many. The call went out for tankers, and no one ever stopped the call. There were so many pieces of equipment there that had we needed to evacuate we could not have.
After 5 1/2 hours of misery I got to unload the Olds. It was 630 and the yard had technically be closed for an hour and a half.
Someone had pulled a fuel tank out of the scrap pile and it sparked, and the conflagration was on.
I was told by a fire chief to ge my truck over in the grass, so I did. I pulled down behind a sign where I could not get back out without help.
The yard has no hydrant, so a call went out for tankers, and ever department in the area sent theirs. I think there were 40 of them. THen there were a half a dozen ambulances, a ton of smaller pickup truck sized rescue vehicles, an ambulance trailer, and even a red cross car. Soon there were pop up canopies everywhere. It was so hot that the firemen were working 3o minute shifts then going to an ambulance or the hospital trailer to be checked out and cool off.
Then a fireman told me I had to move my truck. I asked him exactly where he expected me to take it. My truck is hooked to the trailer that this Olds is on.
He pointed to a spot behind the scale house. I asked if he had ever tried to drive a trailers sideways.
I sat in the air conditioned office for a while, then went out in the yard to find a door handle for #7. I had one at home, but I had nothing else to do. It only cost me $10, and gave me something to do while breathing the fumes from the fire.
When the fire was out, I found the fire marshall walking around, and asked how many departments responded. He said way too many. The call went out for tankers, and no one ever stopped the call. There were so many pieces of equipment there that had we needed to evacuate we could not have.
After 5 1/2 hours of misery I got to unload the Olds. It was 630 and the yard had technically be closed for an hour and a half.
U Pull It catches fire in Shelby
Firefighters from Cleveland and Gaston counties worked in shifts on Wednesday to battle a fire at a Shelby junkyard.
www.shelbystar.com