Car fire in Norwich blocks traffic on Route 12
(Submitted Photo)
NORWICH – A car fire in Norwich was extinguished without injuries after a woman pulled into a gas station, but noticed her engine was smoking and pulled it away before it caught fire.
According to City of Norwich Fire Department Chief Jan Papelino, the driver of the vehicle had just gotten an oil change done about thirty minutes before the fire. He said the driver’s actions may have stopped a bad situation from becoming even worse.
He added that the call came in at approximately 11:42 a.m., with a sheriff’s deputy and multiple other 911 reports that a passenger car had caught fire on the highway near Arby’s.
“When she stopped at the Norwich Speedway and all of a sudden saw smoke coming out from underneath the hood she moved the vehicle away from the gas pumps and onto Route 12,” said Papelino. “I think she did everything that she could have done, it went up pretty quickly.”
Papelino said this was the third call emergency responders had received, with two ambulances already out. He said one of the ambulances had taken a call in Plymouth, and the other was at Chenango Memorial Hospital.
“They needed to respond to the fire station to get a truck because of how involved the fire was,” he added. “It got to the point where you could see right into the engine bay because the hood had melted off.”
“The fire was relatively well contained to the engine area, and no one was injured throughout the incident.”
Papelino said the road was closed off on both sides for approximately half an hour, and that the cause of the fire is undetermined.
“It’s hard to say what could have caused this,” Papelino added. “A lot of preventing this is just trying to keep your car in good mechanical repair.”
“She was obviously doing that because she just had it at a mechanic shop.”
He said a Chenango County Sheriff’s Deputy closed down the southbound lane of traffic, and fire crews closed down the northbound lane. He added that the sheriff’s deputy was on scene first, and at that point the car was already fully involved.
Papelino said crews used the water hose on the front of their truck to put out the flames, and that it was especially important to make sure everything inside the vehicle had fallen in temperature before they cleared the area.
“There’s nothing worse than thinking you’ve got a fire out and having a truck come pick it up then watching it reignite once they start driving away,” he said.
According to City of Norwich Fire Department Chief Jan Papelino, the driver of the vehicle had just gotten an oil change done about thirty minutes before the fire. He said the driver’s actions may have stopped a bad situation from becoming even worse.
He added that the call came in at approximately 11:42 a.m., with a sheriff’s deputy and multiple other 911 reports that a passenger car had caught fire on the highway near Arby’s.
“When she stopped at the Norwich Speedway and all of a sudden saw smoke coming out from underneath the hood she moved the vehicle away from the gas pumps and onto Route 12,” said Papelino. “I think she did everything that she could have done, it went up pretty quickly.”
Papelino said this was the third call emergency responders had received, with two ambulances already out. He said one of the ambulances had taken a call in Plymouth, and the other was at Chenango Memorial Hospital.
“They needed to respond to the fire station to get a truck because of how involved the fire was,” he added. “It got to the point where you could see right into the engine bay because the hood had melted off.”
“The fire was relatively well contained to the engine area, and no one was injured throughout the incident.”
Papelino said the road was closed off on both sides for approximately half an hour, and that the cause of the fire is undetermined.
“It’s hard to say what could have caused this,” Papelino added. “A lot of preventing this is just trying to keep your car in good mechanical repair.”
“She was obviously doing that because she just had it at a mechanic shop.”
He said a Chenango County Sheriff’s Deputy closed down the southbound lane of traffic, and fire crews closed down the northbound lane. He added that the sheriff’s deputy was on scene first, and at that point the car was already fully involved.
Papelino said crews used the water hose on the front of their truck to put out the flames, and that it was especially important to make sure everything inside the vehicle had fallen in temperature before they cleared the area.
“There’s nothing worse than thinking you’ve got a fire out and having a truck come pick it up then watching it reignite once they start driving away,” he said.
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