Question about exiting in an emergency

pnichols wrote:

RobWNY wrote:
If you're in an RV and truly have flames licking your a$$ it's not going to matter if you can find the dead bolt or not. It will be too late by then. RV's go from on fire to fully engulfed very quickly. Now if your smoke detector goes off and you can't get through the window, a good swift kick of the door or a hard shoulder into it will get the door open. Those dead bolts aren't hard to get open. You have very little time in an RV if there's a fire. You get out by any means you can. It's not like the RV is going to be salvageable anyway so no need to worry about damaging anything.

Yeah ... and I've always wondered about your "RV's go from on fire to fully engulfed very quickly" comment ... that seems to be true.

Other than a steel propane tank and a motorhome's steel fuel tank (both of which probably don't catch fire initially or at all) and interior wood cabinetry, what is so flammable in an RV, anyway?

Other than the above, our motorhome consists mostly of fiberglas, foam insulation, steel, and aluminum.

One might also ask "How does a steel and concrete skyscraper burn? How does a stone castle burn?" Answer: The steel, concrete, and stone does not burn. The wood and fabrics inside do!
A fuel or oil leak on or near the engine, a propane leak near the tank or the water heater or the furnace or the kitchen stove or the refrigerator, an electrical problem in the power panel, and the flammable interior is suddenly on fire! I once went camping in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming, and on the way up saw the remains of a motorhome sitting beside the highway. Just the frame, running gear, and ashes. That is all that was left. It was far enough up the pass that once the engine caught fire, the nearest fire department couldn't get there in time to do anything. Nobody was hurt.
Cell phones weren't common back then, and there is no cell service up there anyway.