Motor Homes On Fire

Maybe with some extensive work this late model motorhome can once again hit the road. But the damage is significant, as you will see. Our guess is that the fire started in the kitchen area. There is no sound in this two minute video.

For the first half of this nine-minute video, while an RV burns in a Camas, Wash., suburban neighborhood, people come and go, cars pass by. . . and all the while nobody bothers to even attempt to douse the flames with a garden hose or fire extinguisher. Finally, after about six minutes, a fire truck arrives. By then, the house where the RV is parked has now erupted in flames -- smoke and flames spewing from its roof. As the video ends, the RV is still burning with the once nearly-extinguished flames growing larger and the house still smoking. The fireman are spreading out hose, but no longer spraying water on the RV or the house. What's up?

You have to wonder what started the fire in this relatively new class A motorhome. The fire's location at the rear of the RV makes us guess it started in the engine. But why? The motorhome is parked on the street in a suburban front yard, with its owners nowhere in sight. Whatever the cause, this RV has almost certainly seen its last campground.

A motorhome burns. Nothing much left here. Apparently, the RV caught fire after climbing a mountain grade.