CAR DESTROYED BY FIRE

JUST HOURS BEFORE BEING SCRAPPED

Story & Photos by Brian Woods
Call Time: 11:40 p.m. Sunday April 19, 2009
Elyria - Jefferson Gleba of 535 Case Ave in Elyria had pans to scrap one of his cars - but Gleba said that because the price of gas is hovering around $2.00 a gallon and he still had half a tank - he was going to drain the remaining fuel.

It was then that Assistant Chief Robert Dempsey of the Elyria Fire Department said Gleba crawled under the car and drilled a hole in the bottom of the tank. Gleba told Dempsey that he was drilling because the car had a syphon lock attached.


The car was fully involved within minutes with Gleba trying to fight the flames with a garden hose until the Firefighters arrived. Family members were calling 9-1-1 and moving other cars in the driveway out of the way of the flames.


Dempsey said that the fire was knocked down quickly and that he notified Wastewater so they could clean up the fuel that had been running down the street due to the rain. Although the car was close to a structure, Dempsey said that there was no damage other then the car and no reported injuries. Dempsey did say that Firefighters ventilated the home due to an asthmatic resident.



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