Strange sightings while coming north last week.
I think this was just north of where you turn on the Cassiar Hwy. It was an older, but nice Prevost pulling a pulling a full sized long bed pick up truck with about a ten ft TC on it.
Then up about KM 525 at a pullout there was a TT burning. We stopped and talked to the couple. This is in a section of the road all tore up while they're getting ready to pave it. In all of the dust behind them they couldn't see the trailer was on fire. A guy had to get around them in the dust and then get them to stop. Luckily there was a large pull off right there so they pulled in and disconnected from the trailer.
In talking to them, the trailer had been burning for an hour when we got there and only two people had stopped to check on them - shame on a lot of you people. We stopped and gave them to sat phone to call relatives in Anch since there was no cell coverage out there.
Apparently the fire had been burning on the left rear for a while before the driver behind them got them to pull over. They didn't have any appliances such as the kitchen, batteries, refer or hot water heater back there to start the fire.
My guess is they might have been overloaded since they were moving to AK though other friends going north had taken a U-Haul load north for them already. My guess is the fire started from one of the axles - bad tire, bad brakes, overheated bearings??? And then the wind blew the flames further back.
The RCMP showed up, took a report, gave them his info for their insurance, and then told them they could leave since there was nothing to salvage. He said he'd stay until the fire went out and then arrange to have it all cleaned up. I thought that was rather nice considering the rest of their problems.
Then further north someplace in Alaska, we saw a DP headed south - nothing unusual there, but on his car trailer he was carrying a very large green John Deere farm tractor. I can see him now, unloading it that night to make a quick run to the store for a six pack.........
Bill
Then up about KM 525 at a pullout there was a TT burning. We stopped and talked to the couple. This is in a section of the road all tore up while they're getting ready to pave it. In all of the dust behind them they couldn't see the trailer was on fire. A guy had to get around them in the dust and then get them to stop. Luckily there was a large pull off right there so they pulled in and disconnected from the trailer.
In talking to them, the trailer had been burning for an hour when we got there and only two people had stopped to check on them - shame on a lot of you people. We stopped and gave them to sat phone to call relatives in Anch since there was no cell coverage out there.
Apparently the fire had been burning on the left rear for a while before the driver behind them got them to pull over. They didn't have any appliances such as the kitchen, batteries, refer or hot water heater back there to start the fire.
My guess is they might have been overloaded since they were moving to AK though other friends going north had taken a U-Haul load north for them already. My guess is the fire started from one of the axles - bad tire, bad brakes, overheated bearings??? And then the wind blew the flames further back.
The RCMP showed up, took a report, gave them his info for their insurance, and then told them they could leave since there was nothing to salvage. He said he'd stay until the fire went out and then arrange to have it all cleaned up. I thought that was rather nice considering the rest of their problems.
Then further north someplace in Alaska, we saw a DP headed south - nothing unusual there, but on his car trailer he was carrying a very large green John Deere farm tractor. I can see him now, unloading it that night to make a quick run to the store for a six pack.........
Bill
