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Originally Posted by copper14
speaking of grundy county,one night a guy crashed a drawf car into the wall nearly head on.the car rolled and slid along the pit wall trailing gasoline.the driver had a nylon go cart suit on.the gas ignited and followed the car and when it got to the car the car exploded.the driver was trapped inside the burning car with a go cart suit on.this went on for a while.we had a fire crew there but...….other drivers ran over but couldn't roll the car over to get the driver out.people in the pits carried coolers onto the track and threw water from the coolers onto the burning car.this went on a long time.kids brought water out from the food stand and threw the water on the burning car.when the fire was finally put out and the driver rescued he was faced with a track ambulance only that couldn't leave the track.morris fd responded and they called for a helicopter to take the driver to a burn unit in the Chicago area.the driver survived but was never the same.changes were made after that incident but came too late for one guy.
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A driver standing in the pits ran out on the track with a fire extinguisher to put the fire out. The next week UMARA thank the rescue crew for a great job.