Pass a car fire? I will probably make every 'professional firefighter' cringe when I say this ... but I have never PASSED a car fire.
I have, on a number of occasions, stopped to put one out. One was even the car I was driving.
There are three attitudes that I deplore. "It's insured" seems a handy excuse for failing to take the most basic actions to reduce your loss. "It's someone else's job" (like the fire brigade) is just lame - we are still responsible for ourselves and what's ours. Then there is that basic laziness that results in a lack of preparedness for the most minor problems.
A really decent, capable ABC extinguisher costs less than $20. Every big fire starts as a small one. It is inexcusable that a fire is allowed to 'stew and brew' for any length of time, to grow into a monster.
Unless, of course, it's your ambition to have the world enjoy your misfortune, courtesy of YouTube.
