A postal service truck went up in flames in a neighborhood south of downtown Ketchikan Friday night. There were no injuries, but the heat was intense enough to scar the asphalt and even melt a hole in a steel grate over a drainage ditch.
Photographer Jeff Fitzwater took this photo of a burning U.S. Postal Service Long Life Vehicle on Oyster Avenue in Ketchikan on Friday, Feb. 11. South Tongass Fire Chief Steve Rydeen attributes the firework-like sparks to burning magnesium or another flammable metal.
“So I jumped up and looked out the window and — oh, dear. That postal delivery truck was engulfed in flames,” she said. “A huge ball of fire.” The heat was intense enough to scar the asphalt and even melt a hole in a steel grate over a drainage ditch. “The only obstacle we really dealt with during the fire was we had a small — I’m assuming that it was a magnesium fire burning in the driver’s compartment,” he said in a phone interview Monday. “It was maybe the size of a fist. But it was very bright white, and that’s what led me to believe it could be magnesium. And when it got hit with water, it did pop a little bit.”
“We investigated, and the best we could determine is that it was a mechanical malfunction or failure in the vehicle, in talking to the driver,” Rydeen said.
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