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Fillongley
Garage
Recovery Job
j ob recently on the M6, just north of Corley
services, bulk tipper, carrying 13 scrap,
crushed cars, when the load caught fire. We
were called in to assist the Fire Brigade as the
vehicles kept reigniting.
The little Merlo earned its money, we tried to pull the
rear bale of 4 cars out, so that they could be doused,
it pulled the whole 13 cars and 9.6T out in one go. We
then had to separate and spread the cars out, so they
could extinguish each one and then reload them back
into the trailer with the Hiab, we managed to get 11
back in and two on the back of our truck.
The Fire Brigade said they used over 400l of foam on
the job, amazing how it kept burning, when there were
no engines, fuel tanks, tyres etc. on the vehicles.
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