Posted: 11/16/2010 07:47:46 AM PST
Updated: 11/16/2010 10:02:40 AM PST
The
three-alarm blaze that caused $1.1 million in damage to a warehouse
filled with rock legend Neil Young's music equipment and memorabilia
appears to have started in a one-of-a-kind hybrid car stored at the
site, a fire official said Monday.
Flames began in a 1959 Lincoln Continental dubbed LincVolt, which runs on electric batteries and a biodiesel-powered generator, and then spread to the warehouse at 593 Quarry Road in the early morning of Nov. 9, according to Belmont-San Carlos Fire Marshal Jim Palisi and a website devoted to the car.
Young assembled a team of workers in 2008 to convert the 19.5-foot behemoth from gasoline to hybrid power, an effort he chronicled in a four-part film series.
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Submitted by Jim Wagner
2 comments:
Glad to see this posted - hope Nancy Hall and her biodiesel cohorts who did not believe their plan was dangerous, get a clue.
This is not ironic -- just an unfortunate event. Neil Young was not working with alternative fuel technology for safety purposes. See "Isn't It Ironic?" by Alannis Morrisette.
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