[anjan_c2007]

Originally Posted by JReacher13

NMMTC electric bus gutted in fire at Airoli, Navi Mumbai

Luckily the bus was empty and not moving somewhere with passengers.

This company JBM has got a contract in January 2023 to supply 5,000 electric buses to various states.

https://www.autocarpro.in/news/jbm-a...pansion-113813

[NomadSK]

Personally my biggest fear. Hope it’s not an EV on charge. Sad that some lives were lost.

Additional Fire Divisional Officer (ADFO) of Goregaon Somnath Bhaye said that the fire broke out in one of the vehicles that had been parked in the stilt parking area of the building and soon, engulfed the entire SRA structure through the lift.

Mumbai Fire

[SKC-auto]

Originally Posted by NomadSK

Hope it’s not an EV on charge.

EVs most likely are not involved, otherwise the media would have created a huge campaign. The fire started from old rags.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the fire originated in the stilt parking area, where a significant pile of unattended rags lay. Adding to the chaos, the building's lift had been non-functional for several months, leaving the staircase as the sole escape route. Unfortunately, the staircase was already filled with smoke due to the burning rags, trapping residents inside.

These clothes had been stored in the stilt parking area, contributing to the rapid spread of the fire, which damaged four cars and 39 two-wheeler vehicles.

[anjan_c2007]

Happened the day before yesterday in Central Nagpur on a flyover. The aggregator's cab, a Swift Tour caught fire. Luckily there were no passengers. The driver moved out in the nick of time.

https://youtu.be/CfAhhQ3mSzo?feature=shared

[MT_Hyderabad]

The end was adventurous.

https://youtu.be/Y1SWTQiwnPg?si=ODOpH3kiC0iXmRxt

It is better to let the car burn than opening the hood like this and trying to extinguish it.

It would be a total loss in both the situations.

[anjan_c2007]

An ICE scooter going by the report here. Caught fire near the SNDT college campus in Pune. The report further says that fuel was leaking and caused the fire.

https://x.com/pulse_pune/status/1722...274604720?s=20

Gajanan Pathrudkar, Fire Station Officer, PMC Kothrud Fire Station, said “The two wheeler vehicle caught fire around 12:40 pm on Wednesday near SNDT College. As soon as we got the information, 2 fire vehicles from Kothrud & Erandwane fire stations reached the spot. The fire was easily doused within some time. As the metro station was nearby, they provided fire extinguishers. No one was injured in this.”

[sarathlal]

A runaway car on fire in capital city of Trivandrum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoNBi1ndscY

The driver jumped out, once he noticed the fire and this lead to the car to have a free run through busy stretch of road. Luckily some brave souls managed to get it to a stop using bricks once the car slowed down after hitting other vehicles.

Its a Maruti Omni.
None is reported hurt by the incident

[vvivek85]

A brand new Tata Nexon Creative S plus caught fire, very scary. TATA has to seriously work on QC and have it sorted, it is high time they take the people of India seriously. Sorry if I am very critical, but we are taking about TATA's QC lapse for years now.

https://x.com/rushlane/status/1729134624004346143?s=20

[arnav17]

Saw this alarming video of a brand new Nexon on fire on X. What could be the cause of this incident?

https://twitter.com/rushlane/status/...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Some screengrabs from the video :






Source : Rushlane

[Sandegov]

Originally Posted by vvivek85

A brand new Tata Nexon Creative S plus caught fire, very scary. TATA has to seriously work on QC and have it sorted, it is high time they take the people of India seriously. Sorry if I am very critical, but we are taking about TATA's QC lapse for years now.

https://x.com/rushlane/status/1729134624004346143?s=20

Unfortunately, here is another recent fire incident. Wish the manufacturer comes out with details of what caused these fires.

https://newsriveting.com/ias-officer...-chhattisgarh/

[bobbyblr]

Car gutted after rear-end collision with BMTC bus in freak accident in Bengaluru


A car was gutted after rear end collision with a BMTC bus at Chandra Layout bus stand on Nagarabhavi main road on December 4 morning.

Passengers of a BMTC bus narrowly escaped injury when a speeding car crashed into the parked bus before bursting into flames at Chandra Layout bus stand on Nagarabhavi main road on December 4 morning

The bus driver, Gourish B, was heading from Yeshwanthpura to Nayandahalli and was at a bus stop waiting for passengers to either board or alight, when a speeding car crashed into the backside of the bus and went up in flames. The passengers jumped out immediately along with the occupants of the car.

Source:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...le67603743.ece

https://x.com/DarshanDevaiahB/status...704996992?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxgkfCr1Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvp3EFVrKo

[AutoNoob]

Maruti hybrid car (XL6) catches fire in Bengaluru, man dies as doors get jammed

The 48-year-old victim tried to escape the fire but failed to open the car doors as they got jammed, causing him to burn to death inside the vehicle.

[Source: India Today] [Video: https://twitter.com/HateDetectors/st...23454753362201]

The incident happened on Tuesday (December 26) afternoon. A video of the incident has been shared widely on social media, which shows the car on massive fire. Employees of a nearby petrol pump attempted to extinguish the fire and rescue the 48-year-old victim, but all efforts were unsuccessful.

They said the car suddenly caught fire and even though the victim tried to open the doors, they got jammed. Within seconds, the vehicle turned into a ball of fire .

[anjan_c2007]

A truck transporting fireworks from Tamil Nadu to Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh caught fire late Tuesday night, according to officials. The incident occurred in Khargi Kheda village of Purva Kotwali in Unnao district U.P., where the truck was engulfed in flames, causing fireworks to shoot out and light up the sky. Locals captured the dramatic scene on video. The truck remained ablaze for over three hours before firefighters managed to extinguish the flames. The cause of the fire remains unknown, and there have been no reports of injuries.

The video:-
https://twitter.com/priyarajputlive/...uvFueIPNg&s=19

The newslink:-

Unnao: Truck Carrying Fireworks to Bahraich Catches Fire, Lights Up Sky in UP Village (Watch Video)

http://dhunt.in/S728A?s=a&uu=0x4a09defdfbda8a93&ss=pd
Source : "Latestly" via Dailyhunt

We are yet to wake up and enforce strict safety guidelines on inflammable material being transported. Such commercial vehicles in most cases dont carry even fire extinguishers to douse flames. The enormity of this fire incident was gigantic to be controlled by fire extinguishers though. For safe carriage of fireworks and explosive substances there needs to be a statutory enactment enumerating in built, state of the art fire safety packaging and handling also defining the vehicle specifications of vehicles that transport these. Presently there are laws but which agency enforces them? Enforcement is often to extract bribes and let go wrongdoers.

[UNSC117]

Originally Posted by bigman

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Haryana

UP IN FLAMES: A Scorpio catches fire due to short circuit in Prem Nagar locality in Ambala on Friday. The car’s owner had a narrow escape in the incident. — Tribune photo by Kamal Sachar

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Found this on the Tribunenews site today, thought it would compliment this thread.

What model of Scorpio do you think it could be? Was it a fault with the vehicle, or simply bad maintanence?

[DriverLess]

https://twitter.com/TeslaClubIN/stat...07197782057275

Volvo C40 Recharge. Alleged battery fire on NH53