Vehicle fire after driver smells fumes and pulls over, Wake County NC
TrafficA driver on Forestville Road noticed fumes and pulled over. Shortly after exiting, the vehicle caught fire. There was a prior recall related to stalling, but the fire is considered accidental with no criminal intent or injury reported.
Audio|Source: Wake County Fire
03:18
Transcript:
00:00
If you can send the appropriate units to an NBC on Forestville Road, I don't know if you can see my location.
00:09
I don't know what block I'm around that.
00:11
Looks like single vehicle blocking one lane of traffic.
00:22
I'll go ahead and switch attack 20, tack two zero.
00:28
Copy, thank you.
00:37
Tech 20 from battalion.
00:41
What?
00:42
I don't know if you had an MS unit en route, but you can cancel them.
00:49
I copy. You also have Nightdale Police about to pull up on you.
00:54
Perfect. Thank you.
00:58
The medic seven city copies to counsel, correct?
01:02
That's correct, ma'am.
01:07
73, I have you in service.
01:15
3.3, Chief.
01:17
Do you need us where you're at or move up in town?
01:26
No, I'm good here.
01:28
I have PD and that's all I need.
01:31
Okay.
01:39
Could you have one blue-and-white check-in reference traffic control?
01:44
I got it.
01:47
Thank you. Secondly, could you also have Investigator 1 check-in on our channel?
01:52
Sure.
01:55
We're all in, Investigator 1 and Copy.
01:59
Hey Cap, I appreciate you checking in.
02:02
So,
02:04
with this wreck, the driver's still occupant of the vehicle,
02:08
smelled fumes, pulled over,
02:11
then heavy smoke began rolling out, fire ignited, roughly one minute after she got out of the car.
02:17
The issue here is that there was some recall work done roughly five to six months ago. She said it pertain to the vehicle stalling, possibly a rod as well.
02:29
She said that even after the work had been done, she still had issues with the car stalling, and she would smell fumes in her medley, same odor that she smelled today before she pulled over. So,
02:42
potentially an issue there.
02:45
Okay,
02:47
I'll copy that.
02:48
As far as our end goes on that, that's still going to be an accidental.
02:53
You're going to have some type of malfunction,
02:56
mechanical malfunction in that fuel system.
02:59
Suddenly there's no intention or any malice there, so that's not going to affect us on our part.
03:06
That's going to be more of an insurance issue or whatever she had to recall work done.
03:11
As far as the investigation side, that's not going to think that's at all.
03:15
And she was driving her in this vehicle right before the fire started?
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Location mentioned:
Forestville Rd, North Carolina
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