Days Inn didn't have much damage. It was mostly contained to the truck. We did evacuate the south side of the hotel and kept water on it until we could get foam hooked up so we could put out the fire. We had to use 30 gallons of foam to put out the fire.
The administration at Escambia High did a good job evacuating, I can't say enough about them.
It took them a while to get to it, but once they did it didn't take them long to fix it. It had too much pressure coming off of it, so they had to put a valve on the end of a piece of pipe and put it on there to get the pressure off while they fixed it.
He had some bullets and paint cans in the back of the garage and the heat and fire caused them to go off causing multiple explosions.
He had told us that he had left a battery charger on a lawn mower and we checked it out and determined that the cause of the fire started around the lawn mower. It could have been the battery charger being plugged up so long or the battery itself.
When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.
When you've got a major gas leak like that everybody working around it has to turn their radios off and everything else off because any kind of little spark would ignite it.
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