Motor Homes On Fire

By the time the fire department arrives at this motorhome fire in the Florida Keys, the coach is about two-thirds engulfed in flames. The question is whether the car being towed can be saved. And, wow! How many times can a propane tank explode?

In a period of three minutes, this motorhome goes from partially engaged in flames to almost leveled. The cause of the fire: a propane leak in the fridge. It continues to amaze us how fast RVs burn.

This motorhome had just caught fire in its engine compartment when a passerby with a video camera stopped across the highway, where he described the situation. The RV was burning about one mile north of Wikieup, Arizona (about 2 1/2 hours northwest of Phoenix). He wrote: "I arrived on scene about one minute after it started; I looked in my trunk to see if by chance I had an extinguisher, which I didn't. A truck driver stopped three minutes after I did and tried his extinguisher. By then, however, the entire engine was engulfed and his efforts did no good. I started this video about seven minutes after the fire started, and drove off two minutes later after determining there was nothing I could do to assist."

The Ventura, California Fire Department jump on an RV fire along U.S. 101 The RVing couple and their dog escaped without harm. Here again, we see a relatively new motorhome burning up. It's not just the old junkers that go up in flames.