so i decided to head up to wolf lake again with my good buddy chad from kzoo. all ive been thinking about is throwing a frisby in waist high warm water for the past two weeks with an ice cold beverage in the other hand.... so i couldnt pass it up! well long story short just as we get on M10 (i believe) headed to wolf lake, just west of 131, we notice a van pull over smoking a little from the hood. im on the phone with and contemplainting whether we should pull over or not.. so finally we pull over and run over to the driver.. shes just getting out of the van with her daughter still strapped in the smoking-about to be ingulf in 15 foot flames, van. we look under the car and see gooey black stuff dropping from the engine bay to the ground on fire. so we immediately get them to the other side of the road to safety.. we than flag down the next group of cars pulling boats.. the one guy grabs his fire extingusiher and we try to put it out from under the car.. but it didnt phase the raging fire under the hood.. there was no way we were risking our lives to put out a fire when everyone was already safe.. by that time the fire was out of our control anyways.. the whole time we are trying to put it out the driver is on my phone calling the police and family. within 5mins we have every fire truck in the county racing for us... chad moved his car so we had an easy escape... anyways i offered the lady my escort, so im taking it to her next weekend free of charge.. i wouldnt mind another wolf lake trip anyways.. hope its nice! im gonna de-dent the escort and clean it up in hopes it doesnt look like a complete piece of shit.. here are two videos.. enjoy! youll need quicktime.. safest way is to download, than play
http://mattwild.com/media/video/misc/fire1.3gp
http://mattwild.com/media/video/misc/fire2.3gp
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http://mattwild.com/media/graphic/misc/vanfire.JPG
