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Pickup Truck Fire Put Out with Cow Manure

Posted by Mike Levine | May 16, 2011

Pickup Truck Fire Put Out with Cow Manure

Got manure? This is the story of a Ford Ranger driven by prison inmates in Grafton County N.H. that caught fire while being used to plant potatoes. The blaze was extinguished using a tanker full of liquid cow poop, according to Firehouse.com.

The fire – caused by a ruptured transmission oil coolant line – might have been stopped early on if the prisoners hadn't panicked and fled across the potato field, leaving a fire extinguisher in the truck and forcing guards to chase them instead of fight the conflagration.

North Haverhill Assistant Fire Chief Preston Hatch saw what was happening from his family's nearby farm and made the speedy call to put out the fire with a John Deere tractor and 1,500 gallons of liquid manure, or what we like to call Fire Station No. 2.

If you're wondering what all of that firefighting action might have looked like, wonder no longer.

[Source: Firehouse.com]

Comments (19) in Compact, Ford, Ford Ranger, Offbeat

Comments

More Fords on fire. Must have had some outstanding recalls ;). Hopefuly the farmer was reimbursed for the wasted fertilizer.

Posted by: Jordan L | May 16, 2011 9:28:03 PM

More like Ford didn't admit there was a problem--but it was remedied appropriately; one pile of crap was extinguished by another pile of crap... .

Posted by: Dav | May 16, 2011 9:49:43 PM

What a s****y way to put out a fire.

Posted by: dcfluid | May 16, 2011 9:54:16 PM

Hmmmm... Now what do we do???

Posted by: UncleBud | May 16, 2011 10:09:39 PM

Ashes to ashes. Poop to poop.

Posted by: Ken | May 16, 2011 10:36:55 PM

what a s****y thing to have happen

Posted by: hemi lol | May 16, 2011 10:59:18 PM

My Love for fords is like diarrhea ... I can't hold it in sorry lol

Posted by: chevy guy | May 17, 2011 12:24:56 AM

stupid ford haters, ovisly the inmtes causeed the fire, or touched the stupid cruise control

Posted by: Hauling | May 17, 2011 4:36:40 AM

It looks like they should have just let the truck burn out on it's own. It was so far along they saved nothing and created a mess to deal with.

Posted by: ford850 | May 17, 2011 6:30:25 AM

Well they might as well plant something on it now. It will grow nicely

Posted by: Scott | May 17, 2011 6:46:57 AM

Why waste good sh*t on a Ford??

jk

Posted by: Greg B | May 17, 2011 8:27:01 AM

If you touch the cruise control on a Ford it will burn?

That could be dangerous!

Posted by: Gib | May 17, 2011 9:37:22 AM

They could have used all of this B.S., coming from all of the opportunists on this site, to put out the fire instead.

Posted by: Buy American or say Bye to America! | May 17, 2011 10:09:36 AM

I think its a load of crap!!!???

Posted by: sandman4X4 | May 17, 2011 10:43:48 AM

Those good for nothing inmates will have to walk to the fields now.

Posted by: sandman4X4 | May 17, 2011 10:45:07 AM

I don't see where this is Pickup truck news. Slow day there hey Mike.

Lol! Gotta keep the Trolls on their toes!!!

Posted by: Frank | May 17, 2011 11:58:31 AM

That manure is reminding more like GM's Powertrain Lineup.

Crap!

Posted by: Frank | May 17, 2011 11:59:44 AM

Its always great to have crap on tap!!

Posted by: GrazickGuy | May 17, 2011 12:02:40 PM

Why bother.
Burned to a crisp or covered in doo doo.
Who would want to drive it anyway?
I feel sorry for the low man on the totem pole who has to crawl into this thing to investgate the source of the fire.

Who said Mike was a Ford fan boi?
This story will put out that fire;)

Posted by: Lou | May 17, 2011 12:39:49 PM


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