My dad once pulled a couple of kids out of a burning car.
He got named in the general-purpose lawsuit the family filed afterward, too. This was, I believe, before California had a Good Samaritan law. My uncle went into court on his behalf and was Distinctly Not Friendly, which resolved the situation.
I have since helped people out of non-burning cars after accidents, in situations where there was leaking fuel but no grievous injuries, and once put out a flaming propane canister before it exploded (that was kind of an adventure, actually). In neither case did I get sued, so I'd probably do it again.
I've had one of my cars more-or-less catch on fire while I was driving it (hint: it's a really bad idea to pop the hood if you see smoke coming out of the air vents), and my mother-in-law once abandoned her car by the side of the road after it caught fire fairly spectacularly. But that's the sort of person she is.
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Date: 2008-08-05 05:01 am (UTC)He got named in the general-purpose lawsuit the family filed afterward, too. This was, I believe, before California had a Good Samaritan law. My uncle went into court on his behalf and was Distinctly Not Friendly, which resolved the situation.
I have since helped people out of non-burning cars after accidents, in situations where there was leaking fuel but no grievous injuries, and once put out a flaming propane canister before it exploded (that was kind of an adventure, actually). In neither case did I get sued, so I'd probably do it again.
I've had one of my cars more-or-less catch on fire while I was driving it (hint: it's a really bad idea to pop the hood if you see smoke coming out of the air vents), and my mother-in-law once abandoned her car by the side of the road after it caught fire fairly spectacularly. But that's the sort of person she is.