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Personally, stuff like this makes me really thankful for some of the fire & rescue squads we do have around Indiana that work the tracks. Lawrenceburg's track safety crew is always quick to the scene of a car that tumbled with fire suppression equipment in hand and suited up even if there's no fire, just in case. That said, I can remember a few years back I went to see some pavement sprints at a track I will leave unnamed and I saw nothing more than an ambulance and some guys with fire extinguishers there and can remember thinking to myself, "There's no way I'd be racing at this place if I were driving tonight."
There lies one of the issues IMO, I've never been employed at a track that ran anything larger than karts and all that was required there was that we have an EMT on the grounds during racing. However we made sure we always had an ambulance and multiple EMTs when we raced just in case. But in the case of some of these tracks, I think they just do the bare minimum of what the insurance company requires which may just be an EMT or two and some extinguishers. So good on those tracks that have fire trucks and ambulances with crews dedicated to the track for the evenings events.
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