Police chases are inherently dangerous – that much should be pretty obvious. However, beyond the high speeds and crashes, there’s another element to consider as well, specifically the chance that one of the vehicles involved may burst into flames. And that’s exactly what happens in the following chase video between a Chevy Silverado pickup and Arkansas police.
Clocking in at a little under 15 minutes, the incident looks as though it occurred on November 29th, 2023 in Saline County, per the video overlay. The video starts as you might expect – a Chevy Silverado pickup is seen driving down a lonely two-lane road, with a police cruiser following close behind. After the Silverado makes a turn, the cruiser follows and switches on the red and blue lights. It’s at that point the Chevy Silverado driver opts not to stop, burying the throttle instead.
The Silverado driver makes a few quick turns through a residential area, and we see a second cruiser pull ahead of the first to take the lead. Around the two-minute mark, we see the lead vehicle attempt a PIT maneuver on the truck, pushing it across the road and rolling it on its side. The two officers exit their vehicles with guns drawn, demanding the driver exits the Chevy Silverado.
Around the three-minute, 20-second mark, we start to see some smoke rising from one of the patrol cars. Some traffic is seen rolling around the vehicles. We then see flames appear around the front wheels of the cop car.
As the police struggle to get the Chevy Silverado passengers free, the flames get higher and higher, engulfing the wheel well of the patrol vehicle. By the five-minute mark, the police realize what’s going on, and one of the officers dives into the trunk in an apparent attempt to locate a fire extinguisher.
It’s unclear exactly what happened, but it’s possible that some dry brush ignited against the cruiser’s hot exhaust.
Check out the full video below, and stick around to the end to see just how high the flames get:
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A PIT maneuver is not always the best option.
They seem not to care. An absolute waste of tax payer monies.
Silly rabbit only EVs catch fire
I’d like to be a fly on the wall when the cop tries to explain this to his boss.
Talk about tunnel vision.
They couldn’t smell smoke before the second person existed. Then comes the second fire extinguishers on the wrong side and the car that was filming the event should have had an extinguisher that wasn’t used. Nice waste of taxpayers money I would say. Yeah a fly on the wall would be interesting. Apparently a firefighting class wasn’t part of their training. $100,000 lost between the 2 vehicles.
Yes and no. Definitely things to review and go over. However by the time a fire like that is visible in the wheel wells, a couple soda bottle extinguishers aren’t going to stop it.
If it’s fuel fed, the only thing you can do is call the FD and run like hell.
If they scored higher on the civil service test, they would be firefighters instead of settling ……..
That’s a joke between firefighters and police.
Trooper wanted a new cruiser. Guess the State of Arkansas has money to burn now days.
You can do whatever you want in the State of Mississippi on the state highways. The Troopers only show up to work an accident if the county or city is not involved.
In the mid 80’s we had Ford Fairmont patrol cars that had powerful, for its time, 302 V8’s. The problem with them were that the brakes were inadequate and at times ignited in flames at pursuit terminations. We carried two fire extinguishers in the trunk to put out the flames. It happened twice to me personally, following high speed chases.
The pit maneuver was done very well. Problem is the hot cats ended up sitting on the grass on the shoulder of the road. That started the fire.
Hats off to the officer for a nice pit on the pickup. Well done.
But they could have put the fire out if they had hit it with the extinguisher sooner.
I would of tried to back the car up if it was still running if they would of done that it’s a good possibility they could of saved the car but the cop was more worried about saving the stuff in the car then the car itself by the looks of it. I’m surprised he could not see or smell the smoke coming from the car and it looks like the guy that was driving the truck is the one who told the cop that his car is on fire
That’s called “inability to think in a crisis”. And they let this guy carry a gun?
Should have not stopped on the grass. Hot catalytic converter caught grass on fire looks like to me