On Fire!

Standing around watching

White extinguisher chemicals

Today we took the boat out to Cherry for a classic boondoggle.  On the way there we realized that we had not locked out the trailer brakes which is needed for the steep canyons we were driving in.  So going down a steep hill they were smoking.  Once we got down to the bottom of the hill we pulled over to lock out the brakes.

As we stopped the truck, my friend who was following us yelled, "there's fire!  there's flames!"

All in one motion we bailed out of the truck.  Grace jumped in the back and grabbed bottles of water! Jim flew into the boat and grabbed a fire extinguisher!  By the time I got to the back of the boat, Grace was dousing the flames with water and Jim was leaping out of the boat and diving under it to shoot the flames with the extinguisher.

They got the fire out pretty quick and threw water on the tires to cool them off.  Then Jim regreased the bearings and we were off on our way again.

Boondoggle on!

Used extinguisher

Greasing the bearings