A black Santana caught fire on the overpass
At around 1:30 PM on the 27th, Mr. Sun, a citizen, was taking a taxi driving from south to north along the Shunhe Overpass. Around 1:25 PM, when the vehicle was near the Minghu North Road exit, Mr. Sun heard the taxi driver suddenly shout, "Why is there so much smoke ahead? Is it a car self-igniting?" Before he finished speaking, Mr. Sun looked up and saw that dozens of meters away on the road, a black Santana sedan engine was emitting thick smoke, with flames reaching over a meter high. "I saw two men standing three or four meters away from the car, watching helplessly, one of them making a phone call."
Subsequently, the fire grew larger, with thick black smoke rolling in the air, reaching over ten meters high. At this moment, officers from the Second Detachment of Jinan Traffic Police's Expressway Brigade happened to be patrolling nearby. The officers immediately stopped their vehicle, implemented traffic control in both directions, and reported to the command center.
The height restriction bar at the bridge entrance
Hardly let the fire truck pass
After the incident, the car owner called 119 for emergency services right away. Subsequently, firefighters from the Xiaowei Liu Road Fire Station of Jinan Public Security Bureau immediately drove to the scene. However, the height restriction bar at the bridge entrance blocked the 6-ton fire truck. To save time, the firefighters split into two groups; one group drove under the bridge to find the corresponding ground position to the incident point, while another group carried firefighting hoses and rushed to the fire point with the police officers who came to meet them at the bridge entrance. However, as the area under the fire point was a flood discharge channel, the fire truck could not park directly below the fire point. The firefighters had no choice but to use extended hoses, connecting four hoses totaling 80 meters in length together in the air before they could officially start extinguishing the fire.
Around 2 PM, the fire was brought under control, and the firefighters continued to cool down the vehicle with a high-pressure water gun. According to information obtained from the fire department, fire trucks are generally higher than 3 meters, exceeding the restricted height limit of the height restriction bars at bridge entrances. Therefore, when a fire occurs on the bridge surface, fire personnel usually park on the ground, relay hoses through the air, and have firefighters on the bridge operate the water guns to extinguish the fire.
At around 2:15 PM, the police-arranged tow truck dragged away the Santana that had been burned into an iron frame. After the scene was cleared, the police began directing the vehicles waiting on the bridge. "There were a total of four male passengers on the burning car, none of whom were injured... They first smelled gasoline inside the car, and then it caught fire," Traffic Police Ma Tao told reporters. After the car was towed away, the four passengers took a police car off the overpass. The cause of the car catching fire is currently under investigation.
Weibo netizens live-tweeted
The entire event process
After the incident, netizens live-tweeted the event, recording the progress with pictures and text, and reminding other netizens to avoid this section of the road.
At 1:27 PM, eyewitness netizen "Hui De Zhuan Shu" was the first to post a pictorial message: "On the elevated bridge in Jinan, a car spontaneously combusted. Drivers, please take note." Three minutes later, netizen "Hu Xiao Hu" posted a tweet: "A car caught fire on the Shunhe Elevated Bridge heading north from the south." Five minutes later, the official Weibo account of Jinan Radio's Traffic Channel, "FM1031 Jinan Traffic Broadcast," posted traffic information: "A Santana spontaneously combusted at the turn of Jingshi Road on the Shunhe Elevated Bridge, affecting traffic heading north from the south." It also uploaded a screenshot from surveillance. Thereafter, the official Weibo account continuously followed up. At 1:39 PM, it posted a tweet: "It's clear that the vehicle cannot be saved, so the owner chose to leave. The impact on traffic heading north from the south at the Jingshi Road section of the Shunhe Elevated Bridge is significant." At 1:45 PM, it posted a tweet: "A vehicle spontaneously combusted at the Jingshi Road section of the Shunhe Elevated Bridge, and the traffic police are implementing traffic control." "The open flames have been basically extinguished, and the scene is being cleaned up. Currently, it does not meet the conditions for passage."
In the following half hour, netizens such as Diao Xiaopang, You Lai Dong Qu Xin, Zhang Chengyu, and Li Xiang Shenghuobang successively broadcasted updates about the event.
At 2:29 PM, the official Weibo account of the Jinan Traffic Police, "Jinan Expressway Traffic Police," posted a tweet: "Due to a vehicle catching fire while driving on the Shunhe Elevated Bridge heading north from the south, causing congestion, the scene has now been cleared. Officers are actively directing traffic, please wait patiently. Thank you!"
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