A student from Montreal learned the hard way that it’s best to avoid standing on a pile of dead papers after her car caught fire in the middle of the street last night in Montreal.
Mi-Ann Lemieux had been with friends for dinner for less than an hour when the police called her because her car was on fire.
When she came out in a panic, she immediately saw the firefighters who were busy putting out the flames on avenue del Vecchio, in the Mercier Hochelaga Maisonneuve district.
“Then, the firefighters asked me if I had driven a lot before I parked. Their hypothesis is that something ignited the leaves and things got out of hand. Perhaps oil or gas leaked, or just heat from my car,” the 21-year-old explains.
Photo courtesy Mi-Ann Lemieux
In the photos she took after the sappers finished their intervention, we could see a pile of dead leaves under the front of her car. That’s the part that caught fire, reports Mei-Anne Lemieux.
She said her little black Mazda is now a complete loss.
According to our information, there is no criminal element.
Photo courtesy Mi-Ann Lemieux
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In the US, fire departments have already issued warnings: “Paper is combustible, meaning it burns.” He wrote in English on Twitter the message from St. Louis, Missouri, accompanied by a picture of a burning car.
For her part, the university student tells her story in order to prevent other “trivial” fires of this kind.
“I’ll still be a little scared,” says Mi-Ann Lemieux, who has promised herself to never immobilize her car due to a buildup of dead leaves again.
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