ls1mike
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You can't make this crap up.
Kids electric scooter blew up in my garage. I recently sold the WS6 (I will explain at some point,
basically looking to get something else.) so, the Caprice parks in that spot now. I told the boy
"Hey, that thing is not charging, get it out of the garage and unplug it." I get
"Dad, it is fine, you don't know what you are talking about." I should have done it myself. I go to bed at
8pm but get up to get a drink at 9. I hear something in the garage. I figure it is my son or one of my brothers
in-law in the garage. (one is visiting, and one is living on the property for a bit another story...). I think what is one
of these goofballs doing. Then I hear a loud boom. Now I am mad I think stop messing with my stuff!
I go out to the second garage open the door...
Oh boy. Fire, smoke, can't see the garage door but can see the scooter is on fire!! I have a bunch
of easily accessible fire extinguishers. (Thanks to the OCD I got from Submarines). I expend one
and it is still going. Kid and one brother in-law show up. I tell them to call 911. They do.
Expend another fire extinguisher. Fire is down enough for me to get the scooter unplugged. Expend one more extinguisher.
Fire is out! I get the scooter outside, get my larger fans and start ventilating. Had the fire out and fans going before
the fire department got there. Funny thing about that night is one of the guys on the fire crew had been on Submarines
so I knew the guy. He said "Hey Mike! At least your firefighting training from the Navy finally paid off." At least I could
get a laugh out of that. I am so glad I was awake and at home! We never charge anything, to include power tools when we are not home
and never overnight. I am so glad no one was in the garage or heaven forbid my kid was out there with his head over the
scooter looking at something. I learned you can't have enough fire extinguishers, charge stuff outside and my
smoke detectors work awesome.
Now my poor Caprice. My favorite car to own ever. I wait to see what insurance says. Drove down to Portland to buy parts
to fix it today. If insurance totals it, I will buy it back. You can see the lithium in the clear coat and on the garage door.
Will need bumper, taillight, trim, spoiler and paint. Adds up quick, but a place in Portland had a 15 Caprice in the junkyard and
it had everything I need except the spoiler which I can still source. Some of the stuff is only obtainable used.
New door gets put on tomorrow and then I can get the car out and start cleaning up. Blah. I did get all the extinguishing
material off the paint. What a week. At any rate here you go. Yes, it blew the door out like that.
Kids electric scooter blew up in my garage. I recently sold the WS6 (I will explain at some point,
basically looking to get something else.) so, the Caprice parks in that spot now. I told the boy
"Hey, that thing is not charging, get it out of the garage and unplug it." I get
"Dad, it is fine, you don't know what you are talking about." I should have done it myself. I go to bed at
8pm but get up to get a drink at 9. I hear something in the garage. I figure it is my son or one of my brothers
in-law in the garage. (one is visiting, and one is living on the property for a bit another story...). I think what is one
of these goofballs doing. Then I hear a loud boom. Now I am mad I think stop messing with my stuff!
I go out to the second garage open the door...
Oh boy. Fire, smoke, can't see the garage door but can see the scooter is on fire!! I have a bunch
of easily accessible fire extinguishers. (Thanks to the OCD I got from Submarines). I expend one
and it is still going. Kid and one brother in-law show up. I tell them to call 911. They do.
Expend another fire extinguisher. Fire is down enough for me to get the scooter unplugged. Expend one more extinguisher.
Fire is out! I get the scooter outside, get my larger fans and start ventilating. Had the fire out and fans going before
the fire department got there. Funny thing about that night is one of the guys on the fire crew had been on Submarines
so I knew the guy. He said "Hey Mike! At least your firefighting training from the Navy finally paid off." At least I could
get a laugh out of that. I am so glad I was awake and at home! We never charge anything, to include power tools when we are not home
and never overnight. I am so glad no one was in the garage or heaven forbid my kid was out there with his head over the
scooter looking at something. I learned you can't have enough fire extinguishers, charge stuff outside and my
smoke detectors work awesome.
Now my poor Caprice. My favorite car to own ever. I wait to see what insurance says. Drove down to Portland to buy parts
to fix it today. If insurance totals it, I will buy it back. You can see the lithium in the clear coat and on the garage door.
Will need bumper, taillight, trim, spoiler and paint. Adds up quick, but a place in Portland had a 15 Caprice in the junkyard and
it had everything I need except the spoiler which I can still source. Some of the stuff is only obtainable used.
New door gets put on tomorrow and then I can get the car out and start cleaning up. Blah. I did get all the extinguishing
material off the paint. What a week. At any rate here you go. Yes, it blew the door out like that.
