On The Road Again! We've put the fire behind us.

Congrats Jim!
Good to see you back on the road again.
Nice choice for your new ride and TT, Looks great!
Here's hoping you never go through anything like that again.
Happy trails.:)

Great outcome and I'm really jealous of that boat lift.
I may have to get something similar for my 14' Alumacraft. The 15 hp Johnson shouldn't be that difficult to carry and marry when deployed.

Thanks for the update!!

So glad to hear you are back at it again....


How heavy is that boat?
And here are these fishing holes? :B

Atta-boy! I'm so glad this story has a happy ending.

RVER wrote:
GLAD you are ok and back on the road with new equipment BUT what in heck happened to make that fire?? THAT is pretty scary!!!

A hot truck and burning diesel fuel. Once it got started, there was no way for us to stop it.

Jim

Two Hands wrote:
Do you want to share the name of your insurance company and how they did in handling your claim?

I do. It was MetLife. The did a superb job. No hassle at all. There were three claims filed. The truck (auto policy), the trailer (auto policy) and the personal items (Home owners). The gave me much more than I expected on the truck and the trailer, and they paid full current replacement value on the personal items.

The biggest hassle for us was trying to remember what personal items we'd lost. There were some big ticket items such as guns, cameras and hearing aids, and tons of small items like clothing and medications. We built an Excel spreadsheet, and went on-line to get old receipts from places like Amazon and Cabelas which helped prompt our memory. I'd suggest everyone make an itemized list or take pictures of all your items in case they are ever lost in a fire or accident.

Jim

So glad you all came out of that ok, and are back on the road!

Do you want to share the name of your insurance company and how they did in handling your claim?

GLAD you are ok and back on the road with new equipment BUT what in heck happened to make that fire?? THAT is pretty scary!!!

I did Bionic Man. It was on August 29th, the day of the fire. The insurance company is still negotiating with Ford on the settlement. The apparent cause of the fire was a fuel line coming off and igniting diesel fuel. Ford had serviced the fuel filter where the line came off prior to the fire.

Jim