my thoughts exactly, the shake and bake method can lead to exactly this scenario. however, i hope i am wrong. hope he fully recovers no matter what the cause!!

shake and bake is a portable meth lab, for small amounts and commonly set-up on front seats of cars while the person drives around to avoid being caught. typically uses soda bottles, so is small. ingredients are HIGHLY unstable and prone to explosion or fire. like i say, fits the scenario. just google shake and bake meth.

@ Plork

http://www.timesleader.com/stories/3-arrested-in-mobile-meth-lab,196126?search_filter=mobile+meth+lab&town_id=1&sub_type=stories

omi5cron,

"the shake and bake method can lead to exactly this scenario"

And how do we know so much about how to make meth? :)

You may be right. Cars do not just "explode" despite what TV and movies want you to believe. The meth theory is plausible. Or he was transporting some other type of accelerant inside the vehicle.

A lot of folks here aren't familiar with the grittier parts of life. LOL Maybe he was just a suburban dad whose frappachino exploded in the front seat.

For him to be on fire means there was fuel (accelerant) present in the explosion. I doubt it be electrical.

I agree T1, so many doubters out there.

did you even read the story?

"There was a car accident and somebody's on fire, and we need an ambulance,"

d.trump:

According to the news article, someone called the emergency number and reported, "There was a car accident and somebody's on fire, and we need an ambulance," but that is not necessarily the truth.

The report is nothing but one person's perspective as to the incident. Even if the news reporter had said it, you should still reserve some doubt as not everything news crews write and report is factual. In fact, some news are a form of paid info-commercials. And we all know the purpose of info-commercials.

Judging from the picture, the SUV does not appear to have been in an accident and the fire appears to originate from inside of the cab.

I know, let's just react with our emotions and not the facts.

The guy will probably end up wishing he was dead, from the extent of the burns he is going to be really messed up, disfigured and crippled.

Meth lab?... That's speculation but from the video it does appear that the fire is confined to the interior of the car and not to the engine compartment. Can the interior of a car just light up on its own. A few weeks ago I was at a family gathering in a restaurant. Next door was a truck lot and by the fence was an old dump truck that weeds had taken over. It caught my attention when flames had engulfed the cab, (I got pictures). It burned for about five minutes before the fire department arrived. Very strange!!

Exactly. The shake and bake method of cooking meth causes explosions all the time. Either way, that guy's life is over, whether he survives or not.

Newer vehicles scare me! There is so much electrical/computer junk on them now. It doesn't take much to start a car roastin'! One of our customers (I work at a auto repair shop) had just bought a new Ford F250 diesel 4x4. Parked it in his driveway, had his garage door open. He didn't park it in the garage and good thing he didn't. After 20 min, he was fixing dinner, smelled something, looked outside and his truck was on fire under the hood, didn't take long to burn up half the truck, it did do damage to his garage though.lI miss my 56' Mercury wagon! Little less electrical problems but had to get a newer vehicle to save gas:(

down with big brother,

"He could have had some gasoline in his car"

That's a good possibility. I never thought of that. But if he did, he was a foolish young man for carrying gasoline in the passenger section of the car. I don't even carry extra gasoline in the trunk of my car much less in the passenger section. It's a shame what happened to him, though. As several posters above noted, he will be disfigured for the rest of his life if he survives, and he is still only 23 years old.

sam---

typical dem you...that's why you'd think that. no class

if it were gasoline, it is also plausible. I can't count how many gas cans I've come across with the caps missing and people don't think anything of it. They say I'm being an alarmist . Our construction company routinely stores fuel in gas cans without caps in a storage container (the big shipping containers). You open it up in the morning and it smells like a massive fuel spill. One spark, and everything in it would be blown out into the street. But that's ok, safety is a joke anyway.

But I'm leaning more toward shake and bake meth.

could have been hittin a bottle of 151, dropped his smoke in his crotch, whooof! any number of possibilities, but by the sounds this guy wont pull thru. he was still cooking after blankets, backpacks, and a case of soda to finish... i dont think so.

unless the tank ruptured and i believe a rupture case or shield is installed, i could be wrong.. but it does sound like a story worth hearing to the cause. 23 yrs old... not from there... nobody knows the guy, but seen before... obviously something he was doing to thinking of doing (anything from meth-lab, to arson,to setting someo other person on fire, and a backfire. maybe he lit a moltove, and it didnt go like in some movie he saw...

i think a possible moltove gone awary could also be a slight, but possible... some new "gangsta rite of passage".... (sarcasm?) or some other form of idiocy.

The cause of the fire could be anything. I was once driving down the freeway when a truck driving the opposite direction exploded in fire. The driver brought it to a stop under control, but it cost him dearly. They called in Life Flight to fly him to the hospital. It seems the truck ran on LPG and the regulator failed and sparked the fire and explosion. It wasn't a met lab.

HOW OLD IS THIS STORY!!!???

The real NEWS is that GM is loosing over $$50,000 on every Volt..another BOZOhussan squandering of public funds!!

it is SOOOO sad that clinton's talk was not as SHORT and to the point as EASTWOOD's....
WE hired you to do a job, you failed, now it is time to replace you!!!
blame stupid Bush.. Clinton supported the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a law dating back to the Great Depression that separated banking from high-risk financial speculation. Robert Rubin, who had been Clinton's first treasury secretary, helped broker the final deal on Capitol Hill that enabled the repeal legislation to pass. Some financial historians say the repeal of the law paved the way for banks to invest in risky investments like mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations that played a role in the 2008 financial meltdown.

JFJ, ... haven't you heard jack, >>> Sherlock Holmes is dead, along w/Dikk-Tracy. Therefore I would not wanna wait for a few years to pass for our Gov't, CIA, TSA, FBI, nor Homeland Security to complete an investigation. (mebbe Wikii-Leaks) cud gett'ur done quikkkur for us tho?

I would'nt count on that..... douche.

see a chevy can to, and i bet it has to do with electronics in the vehicle, and the guy that said it was about obama, guess what moron, he will be pres for , four more years. gezz

What's this got to do with President Obama and whether he'll be elected or not? Boy will people blame him for everything! And one person saying this was GM that he was supposed to have bailed out? We're talking about a car fire here! Any car can catch fire; be it Dodge, Honda, Buick or any other car. Let's stick to the discussion please!

Yes it can burst into flames, my brother in law had a GM truck and the interior caught fire. Luckily he got out on time but the interior was engulfed in a matter of minutes. After the investigation it was discovered the truck had a electical problem. So yes it can happen

No. Don't worry. Cars don't just explode for no reason. He most likely had an accelerant inside the vehicle.

Cars or SUV's don't generally explode like you see in the movie. They do burst into flames as it looks like this did. They, also, do NOT make a lot of loud noise when they crash into something. Just go to a demolition derby and you will see.

Yes, gutted in a manner of minutes for an electrical fire, but this caught fire so rapidly that it engulfedthe man in flames before he could exit, it almost has to involve a flammable liquid or gas of some sort.

Have seen it happened although not so fast was a gas leak in fuel line under hood took about 10 min to reach the inside.

Rick-881466------------- I read a post from a friggin idot, it was yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I certainly learned to stop, drop, and roll...but being that I've never experienced being in an exploding car & having my whole body engulfed in flames, I think I'll reserve judgment on whether or not my state of panic might prevent me from taking the best course of action.

I have experienced being engulfed in flames due to someone elses stupid decisions.When I was engulfed in flames it was like you have no control over the whole stop drop and roll thing.I knew I was covered in flames all I could see was orange and all I could think was im gonna look like those horribly disfigured people you see on tv.It felt like 10 minutes yet was only a few seconds.I was waving my arms around and had no clue how to stop it with only a wood floor below my feet.I was eventually put out by one of the idiots that accidentally burned me dispite them Fanning the flames with blankets instead of wraping me up in one... but hay what can you expect from drunk people.Its odd that I never felt any pain even after the flames were put out.I guess when you go into shock thats what happens.I hope that car didnt explode due to faulty issues or whatever.It makes me very scared to get into a car now.

Is your question really supposed to be taken seriously? Uh, yeah Nancy, my guess is that panic does in fact cause one to forget the elementary school lesson of stop, drop and roll when one is literally roasting alive. I can't believe you are callous enough to judge the poor man for "not doing what people are telling you to do", as he is, I must reiterate, ROASTING ALIVE.

It is always the smallest minded people who say they know for a certainty how they would react to what is an inconceivable experience.

My guess, Nancy, is that there is no set protocol of reaction to what is considered to be the most painful human injury one can endure.

Whatever the cause, I'm just glad people were there and helped the guy out. I read the other day about the woman who caught and chased an intruder in her home,,and her neighbors wouldn't even help her restrain him till the cops showed up.

R. Sanders,

I agree with you. I grew up being reminded and drilled daily not only about "stop, drop and roll" but also on "duck and cover." However, I am still 100% certain that if I was on fire, "engulfed in flames," I would be screaming and running as fast as humanly possible to escape them. I might just maybe --since I've always wanted to be a comedian -- yell "Somebody get the A-1!" But your hearing would have to be very good to catch those last words, because I would be well on my way to the nearest body of water, even if the incident occurred in Death Valley!

On a more serious note, just a thought triggered by down with big brother's comment. Could such a horrific fire be caused by gasoline alone? After all, it is the end of summer, and maybe he had to go get some gasoline for a lawnmower or something. And where else would he carry it if not somewhere in his car? I made that trip maybe 2 or 3 times when I was helping my husband with lawn work, and I was absolutely terrified the entire trip. I could even have had a "normal" car accident simply because I couldn't take my eyes off that can of gasoline. Is this scenario possible? a kind of spontaneous eruption thing?

However it happened, I feel very sad for the young man, considering the insufferable suffering that lies ahead of him, if he even survives.

Agree. An accelerant had to be involved.

"speed" kills.or burns depending on circumstances.

I agree a lot of these post would have never came out in a non election year,, shows what kind of IQ's a lot of these people have they have to bash the election and this has nothing to do with the accident does it????

TonyinWyo---Oh wise one you sound so intelligent. Always, falling back on libs---and launching attacks on them. Now that is classy.

The meth theory is more plausible than the fuel leak one. The fireball is inside the cab. This would indicate the presence of the accelerant inside. Electrical fires proceed relatively slowly compared to an accelerant fire inside the cab. A fuel leak would start outside and tend to engulf the engine bay or at worst eventually rupture the gas tank.

TV and movies like to portray vehicles being susceptible to exploding but that is not really the case.

I wish meth would just go away! It destroys so many lives, destroys the enviroment, homes are unlivable after a meth lab is shut down, it's STUPID!!!

I thought the same thing. I only had to call 911 once and thank God my operator didn't keep repeating everything I said in a stupid question format. I would have flipped. I was already working really hard to be calm. It must take twice as long to get help when the 911 operator keeps repeating stuff!

The only Volt fires occurred 2 months after a crash test where the vehicle was left outside. The cooling liquid around the battery pack leaked out and dried up, leaving a residue that becomes flammable. That's the only fire reported and NHSTA has closed the book on the investigation. Any car can catch fire for any number of reason. Stop with all this Govt Motors BS. Every car on the market has some backing of Gov't someplace in their history. The Koreans, Germans and Japanese all subsidize their manufacturers in some way or another, same for Ford and Chrysler. I guess you must drive a car you built in your garage with no help from anyone. You're neat.

Not to defend Obama but this vehicle was built before anyone even knew who Obama was.

I used to work for a company that made auto carpet and upholstery. The most stringent testing done on the product was flammability tests. These were required by both the customers and the government. Any American car burning this vigorously must have had something else inside.

With fried onions and tabasco sauce.