By Micah Choquette
Sapulpa Firefighters responded to a car fire on Sunday, January 1st, at around 7:30 pm in a parking lot near the intersection of Line and Mission Streets.
Firefighters on the scene classified it as a “fuel tank fire,” and had to call in a second truck to “drown” the flames. “You need a really heavy kind of foam to take out a fire like this,” one firefighter said. “We don’t have it with us, so we’re calling in a second truck.” When the second truck arrived, both teams worked to extinguish the flames in the vehicle, and in the fuel that had made its way to the parking lot. No other vehicles were damaged in the fire.
Austin Roberts told the Sapulpa Herald he was working on the car when the fire started. “I was working on the fuel pump, and two wires touched or something, and it just exploded,” he said. Roberts was visibly shaken and had some minor burns on his arm, but otherwise appeared unharmed.
His girlfriend and her granddaughter were also in the car but everyone made it out safely, Roberts told us.
Roberts said they had just purchased the vehicle a month ago and hadn’t gotten insurance on it, yet. “It’s our only way back and forth to get our granddaughter to her appointments,” he said. “Heck of a way to start the new year.”
