5 dead in San Francisco limo fire

[EastKyFF]

Anybody have local information explaining how this happened? I just can't figure out what kept five adults from being able to escape from a vehicle fire.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/05/us/cal...html?hpt=hp_t2

[FyredUp]

I haveto believe it will be several days, if not longer before anything official comes out on this.

I would hope no one speculates on the cause of this horrific incident.

[johnsb]

I'll speculate. It's possible that they were intoxicated. That or a catastrophic fuel leak. This would be a good reason to mandate an escape hammer or two be available to the passengers and driver. A very cheap solution, I think you can get them for $10 or so.

[RFDACM02]

Tonight's network news has one occupant reporting the fire came from under the rear seats, then possibly a communications issue between the rear occupants and the driver led for him to not stop as soon as they discovered the smoke and fire. One could reasonable deduce that a fire under the rear seat might preclude the use of the rear doors forcing nine passengers to attempt to crawl out through the front dividing glass opening. Again, I could think the fire may have been worse but the moving car kept the smoke and flame from rapidly spreading to the interior until the limo stopped and thus it could have been faster than we'd normally anticipate? The official report will tell.

[FyredUp]

I'll speculate. It's possible that they were intoxicated. That or a catastrophic fuel leak. This would be a good reason to mandate an escape hammer or two be available to the passengers and driver. A very cheap solution, I think you can get them for $10 or so.

Or a terrorist attack, or maybe Martians, or an asteroid.

Why is it we want all the facts on an LODD and get bent when people speculate, but it is okay to speculate here? I don't get the double standard.

[RFDACM02]

hi
I agree to you johnsb.The reasons of accidents are very crucial because the happening is due real reasoning accident or other.Is there any target achieving strategies or not.This accident night be a any intoxication effect.

Uhmmm....What?

[EastKyFF]

Uhmmm....What?

What's not to understand about target achieving strategies (or not), or intoxication effect? ;-)

[RFDACM02]

What's not to understand about target achieving strategies (or not), or intoxication effect? ;-)

I can't decide if bchris964 was:
A)suffering some sort of mental health crisis
B)suffering from his own intoxication effect
C)is a member of Al Qaeda

[snowball]

I can't decide if bchris964 was:
A)suffering some sort of mental health crisis
B)suffering from his own intoxication effect
C)is a member of Al Qaeda

I'm gonna go ahead and go with none of the above.
I'm thinking that bchris964 is internetting us from a European country that has not accepted English as it's primary language. However his grasp of our murdered out speak is good enough for even a sloth like me to understand. I'm going to guess that bchris964 is from Germany. I haven't mastered a second language, so I would consider bchris964 light years ahead of me. At any rate;

WELCOME TO THE FIREHOUSE FORUMS BCHRIS964! GLAD TO HAVE YOU PARTICIPATING.
(they understand better when you yell)

[Dickey]

I see the same old same old here.

The only thing we know for sure out of this deal is that it was very tragic and an isolated incident.