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A fire at a Florida airport destroyed more than 3,500 rental cars
A fire that spread through a grassy area of Southwest Florida International Airport has destroyed thousands of rental cars, fire department officials said. The blaze began Friday, spanned 15 acres and originally involved only 20 cars in the grassy rental car overflow area at the airport in Fort Myers, fire department officials said. But by the time it was extinguished, the flames had destroyed more than 3,500 rental cars, a Lee County Port Authority spokesperson told CNN affiliate WINK. (www.cnn.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don’t guess it occurred to anyone to move the cars not yet involved.....??????
Now that would have been funny! Even if they had access to keys, people running around with buckets of keys honking horns and trying to figure out which car is honking with all the emergency sirens blaring would be straight out of the Keystone Cops.
Not to mention running into that fuel and tire fed smoke. Don't forget the bouncing off of hoods because you can't see anything. Keystone Cops 2020
I'm no expert, that's for sure - but I don't suppose there's a lot of grass left to burn.
Not like there was a lot of time to go grab & sort out keys (or opening fobs) that were likely locked up somewhere. Similar situation when Pearl Harbor was attacked. All the anti-aircraft ammo On ships and on land were locked away w/out Officers around to unlock them. The ammo lockers either stayed locked or bludgeoned open by force.
I don’t think anyone was willing to take the responsibility of trying to find out what worked in such a short amt of time & then risk getting burned by flames. If anything, workers were probably happy the “big bad rental company” vehicles were going up in flames as they were likely disgruntled when their fellow co-workers (friends) had probably been laid off or furloughed.
Although not much in the scheme of things, auto assembly lines will replace them w/SUV’s when they start up as most were likely sedans whose assembly lines had been discontinued. They’ll be replaced w/more expensive to rent w/SUV’s although a few will be top of the line model SUV’s, most will be bottom line models.
I don’t think anyone was willing to take the responsibility of trying to find out what worked in such a short amt of time & then risk getting burned by flames. If anything, workers were probably happy the “big bad rental company” vehicles were going up in flames as they were likely disgruntled when their fellow co-workers (friends) had probably been laid off or furloughed.
Although not much in the scheme of things, auto assembly lines will replace them w/SUV’s when they start up as most were likely sedans whose assembly lines had been discontinued. They’ll be replaced w/more expensive to rent w/SUV’s although a few will be top of the line model SUV’s, most will be bottom line models.
I wonder if they saved 15% or more.
Convenient ?