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If I had to guess, I would say that an ember got sucked into the air intake and started a fire in the engine compartment. It was an issue with wildland rigs until they mandated some type of "spark arrester" to prevent it. I'm in no way saying that this is what happened, just that it looks similar to that.
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Similar thing happened here in Australia. In the 2003 bushfire that struck Canberra 1/2 of the Scania urban pumpers were lost this way.
If I had to guess, I would say that an ember got sucked into the air intake and started a fire in the engine compartment. It was an issue with wildland rigs until they mandated some type of "spark arrester" to prevent it. I'm in no way saying that this is what happened, just that it looks similar to that.
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Similar thing happened here in Australia. In the 2003 bushfire that struck Canberra 1/2 of the Scania urban pumpers were lost this way.
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