NHTSA Complaint #10102256 — 2002 FORD EXPLORER

1. DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 30 MINUTES ON THE EVENING (7:30 PM) OF 12-4-04 TO A HOLIDAY PARTY WITH JUST MYSELF AND MY WIFE. UPON ARRIVING WITHIN SECONDS OF THE LOCATION AN ANONOYMOUS DIRVER STOPPED OUR VEHICLE AND MADE US AWARE THAT THERE WAS A FIRE COMING FROM UNDER OUR VEHICLE, A 2002 FORD EXPLORER XLT. AS WE JUMPED OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND SAW THE FIRE A NEIGHBOR WATCHING CALLED THE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT. WITHIN MINUTES THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ARRIVED AND TRIED TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE. BEING UNSUCCESFUL IT TOOK THE FIRE DEPARTMENT APPROXIMATELY AN HOUR TO STOP THE FIRE AT WHICH TIME THE VEHICLE WAS DESTROYED. THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE REPAIRED AS THE VEHICLE WAS DESTROYED. AND THERE HAD BEEN NO INDICATION THAT THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE VEHICLE PRIOR TO THIS INCIDENT.*AK