Ford Aluminum Body

Charlie D. wrote:
I have looked at some of the responses on this fire departments Facebook page with many claiming it had been photo shopped. Maybe is was, I don't know. A friend posted it on my Facebook page. It appears that it has surfaced widely within the last few days because many of the Facebook responses are within a few days.

Here is a response from the the FD yesterday: "This pic was posted for informational purposes to show firefighters how the aluminum alloy body reacts in fire. As for how the fire started it is unknown but looking at burn pattern of pics fire traveled from rear passenger area in the pick up box and moved forward toward the driver side.

Here is another response from yesterday: "Aluminum melts at a lower temp then steel approx 1221 f the alloy bumps it’s up to 1400 and steel melts at around 2600 degrees it’s just meant as information for firefighters for safety reasons and it will take a while for the vehicle to get to complete melting point like that....Has no impact on their safety ratings at all."

One poster posted this:

https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2017-01-1355/.

I am not going to pay $28. to read the report but to the right of the $28.00 is the link to preview the document. Not much information.

It is a photoshop job. Car fires burn very hot, over 1,500 degrees to melt the aluminum. The rubber on the front tires wouldn't be holding air if there was 1,500 degree fire less than 12" away.