SOME GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: A show car — a 1969 Chevy Camaro — burned while it was transported in a transport trailer on Northwest Highway near Walnut Avenue Saturday afternoon.
Arlington Heights police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 2:42 p.m. Saturday to a report of a trailer on fire at Northwest Highway and Walnut Avenue. Firefighters arrived to find a 1969 Chevy Camaro inside a trailer on fire. Within minutes of the arrival of firefighters, the fire was blowing out the back door of the trailer. The trailer was a long race car/show car transport trailer being hauled by a white Chevy Silverado.
A witness driving behind the trailer said that the owner noticed possible smoke, but thought it was road dust at first, somewhere between Vail Avenue and Walnut/Ridge Avenue on westbound Northwest Highway. When the driver smelled smoke, he stopped and saw heavier white smoke coming out of the trailer. The back door of the trailer was open when firefighters arrived. The vehicle became fully-involved with flames as firefighters connected to the hydrant and charged the line. The fire was extinguished within about five minutes.
No injuries were reported.
The Chevy Camaro was being transported home to Palatine after it was on display at the Maine East High School Charity Car Show
The incident marks the second vintage Chevy Camaro destroyed in the northwest suburbs. On Sunday, July 15, 2012 a driver left the roadway while driving a 1967 Chevy Camaro, hit a boulder and a tree and rolled the vehicle over (The Cardinal Driver Destroys 1967 Chevy Camaro SS in Rollover Injury Crash on Estes Ave, Elk Grove Village)
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People fail to remember, the fire department is there to “Help them with their problem”. The fire was not started by the fire department, and it isn’t the department’s fault.
This lady is rediculousy RUDE! I agree with Jeff.. She should have been thankful for their service. I hope she never needs their help again..
With a response like that I have zero…not one ounce of sorrow for those two people. I would have let the car burn after that woman’s comment. Sure not her first time to the pancake house!
The thing I hate about all news (print, web, television) is that they almost never address or even acknowledge the most obvious questions about a story. Question #1. What caused the fire? Even if the reporter/writer doesn’t know, at least acknowledge the basics with a statement like, “Investigators do not know the cause of the fire at this time.” But no, reporters suck and writers suck. I can’t watch the news anymore because nobody addresses the basics! Who, what, when, where, and why. You’re reporters! Get a clue! This is your job! You report that this is the second Camaro to burn. Was there a mechanism that sparked the fire? Is there something about the Camaro that makes it more susceptible to burning like this? Can you do research on Camaro fires, or car trailer fires, or something? Can you just acknowledge the bare essentials of journalism? Why does every news outlet do this now? Where are the editors? If there is no additional information, can’t you do your job as a reporter and ask? If the fire department has, no comment can you at least print that there is no further information at this time. Honestly I don’t even care about the story, but I care even less because there is no real reporting anymore. It’s like the observations of a robot. Someone please find me a concise piece of journalism… a small story like this one where the writer acknowledges the basics.
Dear reader,
1. If you had bothered to read more than this one article on The Cardinal, you would find that we often do report with conclusions such as, “Investigators do not know the cause of the fire at this time” or “no word on any arrests or charges.”
2. I won’t tell you that ‘you suck’ or to ‘get a clue’ but I will tell you it appears that for some reason your reading skills are impaired. The Cardinal didn’t say this was the second Camaro to burn. The Cardinal reported this was “the second vintage Chevy Camaro destroyed in the northwest suburbs.” The first Camaro was rolled over in a one-car crash, and The Cardinal reported that with the extra effort to link to the article for reader convenience. That article also links to over 120 photos that clearly shows that the first Camaro did not burn.
3. As far as The Cardinal reporting “Investigators do not know the cause of the fire at this time” … some times we do. But in this case we got a third party witness report and decided even a fifth grader has enough brains to realize that fire investigators would not immediately know the cause of the fire.
4. The problem is not necessarily with journalists not asking the questions and getting the answers. The problems is more with the tight lips policy of most companies and government officials. Most police and firefighter/paramedics, often with justifiable reason, are not allowed to give out information to media at a scene, especially involving criminal investigations.
5. The Cardinal — Arlingtoncardinal.com is designed to provide breaking news with as little drama as possible. Since it is breaking news, facts may not be complete and follow up to the articles may be limited. The depth and investigation may not be what some readers desire. The depth may often depend on the rate of influx of news. Like any news day with any news company, new stories may push back other stories to the back burner or into oblivion before they ever get started. While continuity and in-depth coverage is important, The Cardinal cannot do it alone. Sometimes The Cardinal goes in depth, and sometimes The Cardinal moves on to the next breaking news incident. Sorry you’re not satisfied with The Cardinal today, but we’re not your doting mother, and we’re not your nanny state.
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@Cardinal Good Job. Nice Video
@Mark HA-HA
As Chief Brunacini says, “No one ever called the Fire Department because they did something smart”.