MH fire at NSRA event

Glad to hear everyone was out safe. My neighbors American Eagle burned up a few months back in the driveway from the darn fridge. Norcold.

Just curious...What exactly happens that causes all these fridge fires to start?

they overheat and if there is an ammonia leak they can explode. the Norcolds have a recall that adds a high temp sensor box that is supposed to shut off the 12 volt supply to the frig before it overheats.

Janss wrote:
Just curious...What exactly happens that causes all these fridge fires to start?

Tubing in the cooling unit can crack and leak flammable gas.

I'm curious if they had a working smoke alarm. It sounds like their doggy saved their life.

So if it is tubing that cracks, don't all refrigerators have cooling tubes? To A-S-S-U-M-M-E that it was a Norcold is wrong. It could be a Dometic, Norcold or even the SamSungs that some are applying in their coaches now. There had to be a reason why SamSung stopped manufacturing the RF-197.

The best thing to say is that there was a fire of undisclosed nature.

A situation occurred a number of years ago, in which one RV caught fire. It was at an event, and a number of RVs were all parked very close due to limited parking for the event. As I remember, a whole row of RVs all sent up in the fire. a number of people were injured, but I don'tknow about deaths.

Two definite fixes: 1) an auto fire extinguisher in the refrigerator compartment that will kill the fire

and 2) I added an ARPrv to prevent the fire in the first place. Highly recommend it.

You had to go and mention the ARP didn't you!! Just joking. I looked at them and considered it but I also consider a residential frig so I have been waiting. Well, I keep telling myself its mostly the double door 1200's. At times I wonder if I'm not crazy for keeping my 2852 or whatever the heck it is. Its had the mod plate but...

Johno02 wrote:
A situation occurred a number of years ago, in which one RV caught fire. It was at an event, and a number of RVs were all parked very close due to limited parking for the event. As I remember, a whole row of RVs all sent up in the fire. a number of people were injured, but I don't know about deaths.

You would think that someone in that row of burning RV's would start theirs up, and drive away! I can understand leaving a fifth wheel where it is, as getting back to it and hitching up might take a minute or two, but I can get my RV moving faster than leaving the coach if the neighbor's is on fire!

I would hope that fire regulations would prevent coaches being parked so close together that none of them could be moved out in case of an emergency! But I have seen them parked very close together in a race event.

My buddy had his A/C freon line break while in bumper to bumper traffic on the busy 605 Freeway many years ago, just east of Long Beach. A truck had overturned on the bridge in front of him, and nobody was moving anywhere. Once the freon line broke, and a huge plume of smoke came out of his engine compartment, and it stopped smoking about 45 seconds later, there was no cars near him! I guess they all found someplace to go!

Some people will not exit the freeway for any reason while in bumper to bumper traffic. It is amazing that they will sit in all that traffic for hours on end!

Fred.