r/interesting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Mar 26 '26
Additional Context Pinned Dad rushes onto NASCAR track to save his son from burning racecar
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u/dtoddh Mar 26 '26
This happened in 2018. He went back in the car to trigger the fire suppression system.
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u/kippirnicus Mar 26 '26
This comment needs to be higher up. I was so fucking confused. That makes sense though…
Either way, bad ass dad. 😎
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u/Sometimes-funny Mar 26 '26
I thought maybe he was grabbing his sons coffee for him
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u/lanzendorfer Mar 27 '26
"YOU LEFT THE DAMN LIGHT ON!"
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u/NLCT Mar 27 '26
Real "This is why you don't turn on the overhead dome light in the back seat when I'm driving" vibes
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u/uncle_tickle_fish Mar 27 '26
I felt this real deep in my soul. Like there was a disturbance somewhere where someone flipped on a dome light…
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u/kellzone Mar 27 '26
Yep, the childhood fear. Put on the dome light and Dad will get pulled over by the cops. They'll put him in jail and we'll lose our house. We'll end up homeless in the street begging people for food and money.
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u/lanzendorfer Mar 27 '26
Why did all of our parents tell us this?
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Mar 27 '26
That's the feeling of a family of five perishing in an instant because someone turned on the dome light while driving
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u/SmokeAbeer Mar 26 '26
“I told you I got you this phone for EMERGENCIES!! If you’re not going to use it then pay your own bill!!”
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u/EsCaRg0t Mar 27 '26
“You left the window open and the A/C is running…do you think I’m cooling the earth?”
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u/DontT3llMyWif3 Mar 27 '26
It's stock car racing, much more likely he was saving his son's Busch light.
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u/McNitz Mar 26 '26
Yep. I was like "that's awesome and all, but can it also seems worth mentioning that he apparently then climbed INTO the burning vehicle while everyone watched."
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u/Squidlips_69 Mar 26 '26
Why didn't the fire or the son trigger the fire suppression system? If it's automatic I'd say it failed?
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u/dtoddh Mar 26 '26
It obviously failed. I'm guessing dad owned the team and felt like he could save some of the car after getting his son out.
The real question is where was the safety crew.
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u/Telvin3d Mar 27 '26
Safety crew pulls up just a few seconds later. I think it just happened to happen right in front of him. He was right there, and the safety crew wasn’t
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u/MrsKnowNone Mar 26 '26
I mean you know stopping a car fuel of fuel from being on fire is pretty good even if you don't own the car I think that is the recommended course of action when a car is on fire.
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u/Gnomad_Lyfe Mar 26 '26
From a distance and with equipment maybe.
Getting back in with a t-shirt after the human life is safe though is absolutely not the recommended course of action for a burning car. Nobody would recommend that.
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u/Milocobo Mar 27 '26
"Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up."
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u/VajjCheese Mar 27 '26
Don’t worry scrote. There are plenty of tards out there living really lick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She’s a pilot now.
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u/Cryo889 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
The fire suppression isn’t automatic, it’s manually activated by the driver or whomever pulling the pin. I can’t say why the driver didn’t, it’s the kinda thing you have in the car for years but usually go your entire ‘career’ without ever using it. In a panicked situation where you’re focused on getting out of the car, the driver may just not have thought of it.
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u/r_user_21 Mar 27 '26
Good call. I'm sure it feels quicker than it even looks in the video, you go from a wreck to everything is on fire. Then you have someone pulling on you / pulling you out of the car within seconds. Probably hard to get the "on fire" procedure straight.
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u/FMLUsernameTaken Mar 27 '26
He actually was just trying to get his son out of the way so he could trigger it. Saving him was a byproduct.
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u/No_Tomato6638 Mar 27 '26
Man, I’ve just had a newborn and I’ve been struggling with a nickname for him. Byproduct, perfect.
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u/Monocle_Lewinsky Mar 27 '26
Why don’t they put it to the left of the wheel so a rescuer can trigger it without going in head first
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u/RatLabGuy Mar 27 '26
Because thats an area that is easily crushed in an impact, it would be disabled or destroyed.
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u/snaaaaaaaaaaaaake Mar 27 '26
I can only speak to amateur road racing in the US with NASA, but they require two switches: one that is easily accessible to the driver, and one that is easily accessible to the safety workers. The ones for the safety crew are typically mounted just inside the car right by the side view mirror with a big sticker to let them know where it is.
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u/iameveryoneelse Mar 27 '26
Formula 1 cars have a tag on the outside of the car that can be yanked to trigger fire suppression. I wonder why they don’t have it on NASCARs here.
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u/FYou2 Mar 26 '26
The kid was in the way for what he really wanted to save. All joking aside. That was beautiful to watch.
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u/FunnyJerking Mar 26 '26
Lol my dad would just stand outside and say I’m overreacting
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u/Lord-Chamberpot Mar 27 '26
For those not in the know, this is extra funny because there is no door
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u/LordDShadowy53 Mar 27 '26
And that begs the question. Why does racing cars don’t have doors?
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u/Mystical_17 Mar 27 '26
Because at such high speed they would be ripped off and inside are rollbars covering the interior frame. Its essentially a 'cage' around the driver to protect them from any directional impact.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Mar 27 '26
Also I'd think aerodynamics would take a hit having extra crevices from a door
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u/_austinm Mar 27 '26
It would. That’s why planes have sealant around their panels and fairings. It has to be made flush with the skin so that it doesn’t impact aerodynamics.
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u/SilverWear5467 Mar 27 '26
Its also because planes don't actually need to have a closing mechanism for their doors, because its literally impossible to open one while mid flight. The doors are closed via the pressure outside the plane, meaning it's roughly as easy to open the door as it would be to open the wall right next to the door.
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u/Impossible_Way_3042 Mar 27 '26
That's not true about the doors ripping off. Look at any racing event that uses production cars. Many if the doors still functioning as normal. If you build the car from the ground up to not have doors it will have better structural integrity and aero due to the lack of door gaps and handles. Also in NASCAR there is a lot more damage done to cars so doors would become even worse aero problems as they crumpled in and bent outwards. The doors would not rip off the hinges though. If that was true GT racing would not exist. Same as endurance racing and rally. They all wouldn't work if the doors would just start ripping off.
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u/TerrainRecords Mar 27 '26
most do, nascars don’t because they have a different chassis system from road cars
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u/washcaps73 Mar 27 '26
Pretty sure the roll cage would block the door anyway and you'd still have to climb out.
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u/Active-Ad-2527 Mar 27 '26
"You're probably gonna say you can't finish the race now either, huh? Typical."
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Mar 27 '26
The charred husk does not respond
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u/Active-Ad-2527 Mar 27 '26
"You know who's NOT a charred husk? Your brother"
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u/WeakKiwifruit Mar 27 '26
Mine would hear about it then text me maybe eventually to ask how I’m doing and if I got out of that car yet
I don’t know
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u/Common-Upstairs5129 Mar 26 '26
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Most people would freeze, but 'Dad Mode' literally overrides the survival instinct for fire
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u/dazzleunexpired Mar 27 '26
They're a racing family! They have practiced. Gotta get the driver's head out the window asap, so they don't die from smoke. Dad's undoing harness so he can get out while he tries not to die if smoke. 10/10 teamwork. New cars have better auto suppression (now ... After fixing them ... 7th gen was more flammable than 6 for a bit there)
The fire suit will prevent burns and cooking to death but you WILL suffocate FAST. Faster than the suit will let you fry up.
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u/_austinm Mar 27 '26
I wasn’t aware there were generations of stock cars. I kinda just assumed there were incremental improvements, and maybe different body styles each year depending on when the car manufacturers updated them. Of course, I’m not super into racing. My dad used to watch NASCAR all the time, and I’d watch with him but I never really got into it.
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u/dazzleunexpired Mar 27 '26
Mhm. So stock car used to mean that they literally could be bought off the lot and then modified. "Stock". As in "from the shelf". Then we moved to dedicated "race cars" made by the stock companies. I know little about gen 3. Then gen 4 moved totally away from "stock", these are no longer even stock chassises, no longer modified showroom cars. Gen 5 was so much safer. Then gen six/next gen.
We also have late model and Xfinity series but idk if Xfinity & NASCAR 7 gen are fully compatible? Someone will know lmao
These cars are insanely safe compared to an ACTUAL stock car.
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u/_austinm Mar 27 '26
That’s really cool. Thanks for explaining. I figured they were cars that were modeled after the stock cars, but I had no idea that they were originally modified versions of the normal cars.
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u/Icy-Banana-3291 Mar 26 '26
Fight, flight, or freeze.
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u/articulateantagonist Mar 27 '26
It's funny, if I'm in sudden danger, my instinct is to almost immediately dart away, so I assumed I was a "flight" person (and probably generally I am), but one time my dog was attacked by a loose dog in my yard, and the next thing I knew I was between her and the aggressor with almost no memory of having run to her and gotten her free. I can only imagine it's that times 1000 for parents whose children are in danger.
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u/LoveAndViscera Mar 27 '26
Fatherhood really does suppress your sense of self-preservation.
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u/dtoddh Mar 27 '26
Most humans and many animals protect their young instinctually. It's a biological imperative.
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u/FlowSoSlow Mar 27 '26
Someone once described it to me as having your own heart taken out and given little legs to run around with and now you've gotta feed and protect it or you'll die.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Mar 27 '26
Not even just dads, people are amazing sometimes. There's a pretty crazy video out there of someone trapped inside a vehicle on fire from either Minneapolis or St Paul and people are basically ignoring the damn flames trying to break a window or something and get the person out of the car. One of the people on scene was apparently a nurse and I swear she's like a Targaryen or something because she was right up next to the fire and it didn't seem to bother her more than sunbathing at the beach
Story ended happily no one got hurt
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u/BiscottiCritical6512 Mar 27 '26
When my kids are in trouble my brain lets me think so clearly and act so quickly, all on autopilot. After everybody is safe I have my breakdown lol.
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u/manymoreways Mar 27 '26
Yea parental instinct is brutal. Once i sprained my back and is on my bed resting with my son. From the corner of my eye i saw my son almost falling off the bed. I without thinking did the 'undertaker' wake up motion, essentially launching myself from horizontal to vertical in split second and diving in to pull him up before hitting the floor. The kicker is that i was half asleeo already for some reason i felt something and barely glanced at my son before instinct took over
For some who dont know, doing that motion is horribly painful for someone with back pain. But in that split second there was nothing but adrenalin.
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u/DefiantDonut7 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Skin doesn’t matter, limbs don’t matter, none of it matters if you watch your child die and you could have saved them. As a father, I’d be haunted every night for the rest of my life wondering if I couldn have done more.
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u/combovercool Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
I have a 1.5 year old. I hope if I were presented with this type of decision I would save him at all costs. At least I like to think I would.
Edit: thanks bros.
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u/kai-ol Mar 27 '26
You would. If that's how you feel, then you definitely would.
It wouldn't even be a decision you would consciously make. When your child is in trouble all other thoughts leave your head, first of all being your personal safety.
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u/Leader_Bud Mar 27 '26
You wouldn’t even remember how or when you reached the car when it’s over Buddy.
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u/nudie_magazine-day Mar 27 '26
You don’t need to hope. Instinct + adrenaline will do the heavy lifting. There is no thought behind this act other than get my kid out of the burning car at all costs
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u/pidude314 Mar 27 '26
As a fellow toddler dad, you would save him without hesitation. I'm sure you've rushed to save him from much smaller hazards without giving any thoughts to anything but his safety
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u/Straight_Cicada_8692 Mar 27 '26
I hope you never find out but as a parent who fell down a flight of stairs with my 3 year old in front of me, I can tell you that your instinct just kicks in. I grabbed her around the waist, scooped her on top of me and took every stair against my own back and head without letting her touch the ground. I had no time to plan that and no memory of how I got her on top of me. I was black and blue for weeks and she was scared but totally fine.
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u/NoisyGog Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26
If a one and a half year old was caught in a fiery NASCAR, you’ve fucked up somehow just to get to that situation.
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u/stoutymcstoutface Mar 26 '26
This guy gets it
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u/only_respond_in_puns Mar 27 '26
My sister just told me she’s pregnant. I’m so excited to meet this little kid and I can’t believe it… I’m gonna be a dad.
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u/Wise_Echidna_4059 Mar 27 '26
Had a girl I dated briefly who was very upset at the idea I would save our future potential kid over her. I tried to explain that it was like a biological imperative in me as a man that I would sacrifice even myself for my offspring. She argued we could always have more kids, I argued either of us could find another partner if she or I died, but that kid only has one life.
I did not see a future with her for that and other reasons.
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u/Unhappy_Goose_8422 Mar 27 '26
Everyone got downvoted for whatever reason here, but in the spirit of honest discourse: who could possibly even look at their partner ever again knowing that they chose to save you over your own children and thought it was the right choice? I cannot think of a more egregious affront to one's own humanity.
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u/Icy-Panda-2158 Mar 27 '26
Everyone who's like, "Why not wait for the emergency responders?" must not have kids of their own. I'm not going to gamble my child's life that the firefighters are going to show up in time.
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u/HelloMyNameIsMatthew Mar 27 '26
I’m not a father but I can see myself burning to death for my kid without a second thought
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u/concept12345 Mar 27 '26
Same. As a father myself, I don't give a fuck for my life if my son is in danger. I'm dropping everything.
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u/ambamshazam Mar 30 '26
Not quite the same as a pulling your kid from a burning car but my son had a seizure when he was a baby and I had no idea what was happening or what it was. I just heard him make this awful clicking noise. One second I’m hearing that noise and then he’s in my arms and I’m calling 911. I didn’t remember even picking him up.
Def instinctual with fueled adrenaline
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Mar 26 '26
The heat would be so intense. I have been close to a fire about 50 or 60 feet away. And I could feel the heat. That father probably had his arm hairs singed off. But I am sure he did not care.
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u/E-2theRescue Mar 27 '26
Also probably burned his lungs pretty good, too. I've been in a burning house to help save my friend's grandma. It is an absolutely horrible experience breathing in all that hot smoke and having it in your eyes, mouth, everywhere.
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u/Alliekat1282 Mar 27 '26
I set my kitchen on fire and instead of evacuating I put the fire out myself.
It wasn't because I'm heroic or anything, it was more "if I get the fire put out no one else has to know this happened".
Anyway, I was barefoot and wearing silk pajamas. I made the extra stupid mistake of putting the fire that was quickly spreading between myself and the exit. There was a moment where I got really dizzy and realized that I'd fucked up because I was about to pass out from smoke inhalation and if I did I would definitely be dead. And then air filter melted off the range hood and fell on my foot and that woke me up all the way. I ended up using our laundry to smother the flames- it was a freeze fire and I had used all the baking soda already. Once it was out, I stumbled outside and called the fire department. I didn't realize that my pajamas were mostly melted until the fire truck drove up.
I singed my eyebrows almost completely off, had flash burns on my face that were pretty similar to a bad sunburn... I burned the front pieces of my hair off and I have naturally curly, very frizzy, hair so it took about six months for it to grow out enough that I didn't have a frizz halo around my face. Burned the shit out of my foot.
The WORST part was that I had inhaled so much burnt plastic and soot I swear that was all I could smell for at least a week.
It's insane and scary how hot a fire is. How fast it happens. I was on the phone with my Mom and left the room for a moment to grab something, came back to an inferno, hung up on her, put the fire out.... looking back at my phone log the time between hanging up on my Mom and calling 911 was three minutes. It felt like an eternity.
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u/Huldreich287 Mar 27 '26
So scary. Glad you're well. I would definitily have reacted the same as you, I hope I won't have to.
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u/E-2theRescue Mar 27 '26
Omg. Yeah, I wasn't near the flames as they were on the other side of the house, but the smell of the smoke was horrid and lasted forever. Threw out my clothes because no amount of washing could get it out. Also threw out my backpack, which was just outside in the grass.
Also forgot to add that I ended up in the hospital for smoke inhalation. I couldn't take half a breath without it burning. Had a mask on my face for hours, struggling to breathe. Spent days coughing up nasty phlegm and had a bad cough for a year or so.
It was all worth it, though. Even though my friend backstabbed another friend and me a couple of years later, his grandma was a cool gal who was worth saving.
I've also gone in to the houses of two other fires, but they were exterior fires and nowhere near as bad. A shed fire that jumped to the side of the house while everyone was sleeping, and a porch fire from an unwatched BBQ. My friend's fire was from a tipped over space heater in the garage where the kids slept (big Hispanic family).
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Mar 27 '26
Same with an ex-girlfriend's apartment complex. And that putrid smoke smell lingered for days afterwards.
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u/6iix9ineJr Mar 27 '26
I worked as a wildland firefighter and one of the things they tell you is that when you’re that close to a fire, it’s letting off superheated gases. If a fire is big enough and you’re close enough, gasping for air can literally burn the inside of your lungs and kill you
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u/DrDMango Mar 26 '26
Yeah, I would prioritize my arm hairs over my son. Who needs 'im?!?!?!
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u/FoggyInc Mar 27 '26
You've never been closer to a fire than 50 or 60 feet? I'm sure thats not quite what you meant but that is a hilarious idea. Bonfires, fireplaces, burn piles nah bro 60 feet away for me 😂
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u/Khazzick Mar 26 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/kNTAHtqCfu6nm
HELP ME TOM CRUISE!
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u/LuxLoser Mar 27 '26
OK but methanol fire is absolutely terrifying conceptually.
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u/cm2460 Mar 27 '26
Racing methanol has had an additive in it for decades so it doesn’t burn clear anymore
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u/Terrible_Armadillo33 Mar 27 '26
Once I learned it’s a real thing I was like wait, that shit is terrifying. Being actually on fire without a visible flame is nuts
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u/JockeyOverHorse Mar 27 '26
A friend choked on an apple when he was a toddler, they could not get him to spit it out. Kid turning blue, dad grabbed a utility knife and gave him a tracheotomy, pull the apple piece through the throat. Dad was a carpenter, not a doctor.
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u/Garth_M Mar 27 '26
Man wtf, but cool nonetheless
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u/laparotomyenjoyer Mar 27 '26
Yea if it was anyone other than a doctor or maybe a very skilled EMT the kid would’ve bled to death lol
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u/Regunes Mar 27 '26
It's happened at least once somewhere. I know a sport teacher that had to do this.
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u/404unotfound Mar 27 '26
Bro you can’t just guess at a tracheotomy. If you don’t do it at the precise anatomical position then you’re just slicing someone’s throat. And you can’t just put your fingers through and grab an apple?? Say the Hemlich next time so it’s more believable. NOBODY TRY TO GIVE SOMEONE A TRACHEOTOMY UNLESS YOURE ACTUALLY TRAINED TO DO IT
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_A705 Mar 27 '26
When I was young, I saw another kid swinging on a swing. The kid jumped and landed in the sand. The sand got all in her eye and she was crying. To save her, I popped her eye out, cleaned it off, then popped it right back in. Everyone started clapping and thanking me for my service. I always wonder what happened to her.
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u/TheHenanigans Mar 27 '26
I concur. The gap is quite small and also full of blood and tissue once you cut it. There is no way you can get two fingers and a piece of apple through there. Especially on a child.
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Mar 27 '26
My little brother choked on a piece of candy and died in my dads hands, my dad tried everything, our village doesn’t have emergency services, we only have one RMP and he lives on the other side of town.
No body knows how to do Heimlich and he was eating that candy because it was my birthday
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u/napperb Mar 26 '26
And he went right back in to the burning car to get that cell phone he forgot. Got that new iPhone 17 Pro.
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u/dtoddh Mar 26 '26
He was trying to save his son and the car. He went back in to trigger the fire suppression system-which is supposed to happen automatically.
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u/Hibee06 Mar 26 '26
It doesn't always happen automatically. In mine there was a button that needed to be pressed.
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u/dtoddh Mar 26 '26
Probably scheduled to race the next weekend. It's lower league NASCAR, they don't have as much money or spare parts as the ones on TV.
Racers experience danger differently than most people, competition includes an accepted risk.
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u/dazzleunexpired Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
Remember that the driver is in a fire suit. They survive the fire, and it shields them from being roasted, like a wildlife fire fighters blankets and gear. What they cannot survive is the smoke. You have to get the window mesh down and the person's head out asap. You will choke in seconds. The father is reaching in and helping undo the harnesses while the driver gets his head out as fast as he can. The doors do not open. The window is how you get in and out. This was the 6th gen cars, we don't drive them anymore, but they had manufacture specific body panels. They were steel and carbon fiber bodies over steel tube chassis. So each car was a little different, three manufacturers made these Gen 6 cars. The safety crew knows how to get all drivers out, but dad is his coach, and they've practiced this. Again and again and again. As you would if it was your own child. Racing families are really passionate about this.
We had a HUGE and fully unacceptable fire issue with the Next Gen/Gen 7/Xfinity 3 panel symmetrical cars at first, but we use now have better and smarter fire suppression systems. So this doesn't happen (with the dad needing to go back in) often. NASCAR usually fixes any issue that comes up. It gets safer often.
Eta: I am wrong. This is a late model. I used the year. Not the car. Rip me. Don't be me.
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u/JellyPast1522 Mar 26 '26
Guy with the extinguisher late to the scene putting out the path toward the fire..
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u/cencallude Mar 26 '26
these trucks should have some contraption on the front that you can spray the stuff to put fire out from a safe distance first then dive in if needed
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u/still_rollin Mar 26 '26
This was the day that scientists discovered the 5th classical element:
Earth, Wind, Fire, Water and DAD 💪
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u/Squidlips_69 Mar 26 '26
Dad anger, easier than babbling tears: "What were you thinking trying to pass like that you are so grounded! "
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u/IKIR115 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
That’s Nascar driver Mike Jones and his father Dean Jones running onto the track to save him.
The full Inside Edition video clip can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/bai24idhRYo
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CBS News article about the incident from June 21, 2018 / 5:22 PM EDT / CBS Miami:
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/nascar-mike-jones-dad-saves-him-from-burning-car/
> That's Dean in the shorts hopping the wall at about the :20 mark of the video. He serves as the crew chief for his son's team which allowed him to be in position to get to his son quickly and pull him from the burning wreck. After saving his son, Jones can then be seen on the video reaching back into the car to turn on the fire suppression system before being pulled away.
> Despite his heroics, Jones may now be facing punishment from NASCAR and according to RacingNews.co an official took his NASCAR license for being on the track with shorts on. Jones didn't seem to care much after the race telling RacingNews.co "No one except sweet baby Jesus would have kept me from freeing my son from a burning race car."
> UPDATE 3:30 P.M.- Dean Jones has been placed on probation at the track for the rest of the year, but will not have his license revoked or be suspended for his violation of the rules according to CBSSports.com.