Keep an eye on your tires

Been there done that. I'm a fire fighter and have had calls that came from trucks and trailers throwing sparks from shredded steel belted tires, dragging broken suspension parts, chains, etc.. For several miles.

When the cheat grass dries out along I84 in Idaho a blown trailer tire will and has started many fires out this way.

In 2017 coming home from Arizona in mid/late April, we turned onto 93 north for I-15 in Nevada. I short distance up the highway was a pickup and trailer with a tire completely gone from the passengers side rim. On up the road for a mile or so were fires alone the side of the road. It does happen in dry areas quite easily. Chris

time2roll wrote:

snowpeke wrote:
This Trailer may of started this big fire! I don't know what kind tires had but in this heat check your pressures at every stop. If they are China bombs replace them!Blow out

I don't buy that at all.

I would like to see an independent test where towing a trailer would cause a fire. Dragging chains, flat tires I don't see it. Just more FUD. Unless of course an occupant threw a cigarette into the dry weeds when getting out to review the situation.

You've obviously never followed a trailer with a dragging safety chain AT NIGHT, then. Depending on how much is dragging, it can be everything from a spark here and there, to a solid stream of sparks, like you'd see off a grinding wheel. Hell, whoever thought that =shooting= in the forest would cause a forest fire? Well, it =can= and it =does=. I was skeptical until I saw some low-light shooting videos and it was eye-opening. I now agree with the USFS when they close an area to shooting due to fire danger.

Lyle

I have worked many fires on where a tire blows out and there are spot fires along the road. With the way the courts works now I would not be surprised they try and sue the camper owner, but not much you can do to prevent this from happening. If temperatures get above 100 you see more trailers on the side of the road changing tires.

JIMNLIN wrote:
Steel trailer wheels put on quite a spark shower show at nite on a run flat after the tire has worn/shreds away. On my nite runs that was the first tip off I had a tire issue on a trailer. Triaxles trailers don't give much input to the driver when one tire goes down on certain road surfaces other than smoke and flying rubber during daylite or huge spark show at nite.

yup they do, but if you look at that picture again all the rubber is still on the rim and it isnt bad, just looks flat. I would find it hard to believe that trailer caused anything.

Steve

StirCrazy wrote:
yup they do, but if you look at that picture again all the rubber is still on the rim and it isnt bad, just looks flat. I would find it hard to believe that trailer caused anything.

I see it as cover for an arsonist to point the blame in another direction.

Still want to see a test from an independent company.

StirCrazy wrote:

JIMNLIN wrote:
Steel trailer wheels put on quite a spark shower show at nite on a run flat after the tire has worn/shreds away. On my nite runs that was the first tip off I had a tire issue on a trailer. Triaxles trailers don't give much input to the driver when one tire goes down on certain road surfaces other than smoke and flying rubber during daylite or huge spark show at nite.

yup they do, but if you look at that picture again all the rubber is still on the rim and it isnt bad, just looks flat. I would find it hard to believe that trailer caused anything.

Steve

I agree with this... I am NOT saying it couldn't happen because I have seen PLENTY of sparks by chains, rims, ect...
BUT in this case, the wheel LOOKS ( TO ME ) in tact.. with the rubber still there..

We may never know

This is the fire that is making all the headlines in Redding RIP firefighters that have given there life.