Good on the firefighters for saving an asset worth hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of just letting it burn like the rest of the house.
I see the priorities are in check.
I mean if it's a choice between saving one thing and saving nothing, may as well take it.
The house was probably already damaged enough through just smoke wafting through it to be written off, even if the structure was still sound.
But honestly? I wouldn't be surprised if the home-owner would pick to save the car over the house, if it came to the two. Losing a house would be horrible, but I would assume insurance would cover it. You can't really replace an original GT350.
Considering he lost his home he's kind of going to need that money
I'm not sure what the intention on this post was but I unironically agree
What does this MEAN
It probably just took 5 minutes to push it out of the garage onto the tile where its safe. I'd be a dick move for them not too tbh, Firefighters tend to save valuable assets that are part of history.
Hell, I have a 95 Miata, and if my house was burning down I would be pushing that to safety too.
As someone with secondhand experience with the aftermath of even the most minor house fire, that house is already fucked. A friend had his home catch fire in the basement which ironically destroyed an adjacent water pipe and which put the fire out. But despite no physical damage beyond the immediate area of the fire, the smoke damage was huge. The entire basement and first floor reeked of smoke and the air burned your eyes, all clothing, furniture, and appliances had to be sent to a cleaning and recovery center, and the entire first floor was gutted; floor, walls, ceiling, and insulation.
I'm pretty sure that even if it was a piece of shit base model EcoSport, it would still get pushed out.
It's a way to mitigate a potential ignition risk.
I've seen what it takes to rebuild a house after a fire. Didn't rebuild personally but I've seen a WIP historical rebuild.
It requires straight up redoing walls from scratch and restructuring floor joists on both sides, keeping the old joists in.
You also have to redo all of the insulation, drywall, everything, in all damaged areas. All flooring. Everything. Everything is fucking gone. You aren't building it from foundation, you're reinforcing around damage or reconstructing it entirely.
Even smoke damage, the bathroom of this house was sorta intact, except it was outright soaked in blackness. Cleaning it would be absurdly hard to do, possibly even requiring totally redoing the bathroom interior.
Better off just getting a new home at that point. Because you aren't living in a burnt one. Wood is amazing stuff but there's a reason we cook with it as fuel.
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i would literally risk my life for my cars, so yeah they absolutely do.
Yea I mean if a house is burning, if nobody is left inside, and if I could only save a single object, and there's a unique/extremely rare piece of art in there that's historicaly significant, that's what I would save. Everything else is replaceable. Same idea here, genuine vintage cars are not replaceable.
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Cars burn too you know
Cars burn remarkably well.
They do contain any where from 0 to 80 litres of highly flammable liquid
What is "Gas-Oh-Leen" for 20 dollars, Alex?
Hundreds of thousands evacuating the state of California? That sounds like a lot.
Who is going to pay for all the property that got destroyed? Maybe some nation-wide fundraisers will be put up and other solutions. I don't know how it usually works out for the people who escape wildfires, but I'm fearing that a lot of people will be simply left fucked.
Probably a huge relief for the guy that atleast he can keep the car which he undoubtedly loves. Not everything was lost.
$200k is not enough to get a new home in California, it starts at something like $600k
