Dangers of parking close together

That very nearly happened to us one evening in Carrickfergus. The wife thought she turned off the cooker but in fact turned it down to the very low setting ,pulled down the glass lid and put the drying cloth on the lid to dry as the glass was warm. About 15mins later we had went for a walk when my mobile phone went and this voice shouting down the phone get back here quickly something has burst with a loud bang inside your Motorhome. I ran back "I was younger then and could run"only to find the glass lid has exploded and the drying cloth was burning on top of the cooker, smoke everywhere and everyone running to get their Motorhome out of the line of fire. Luckily enough for us I got the burning cloth thrown outside and the cooker switched off without any damage except for the glass lid on the cooker which had to be replaced and the small pieces of the glass lid were everywhere including the two front seats. I do believe there was still pieces of glass in the van when we sold it.
I can tell you all it was a very scary situation that we would not like to repeat or see anyone in the same situation.

Too right Ally. I don,t ask any more is it off I check myself and as I said the small flame is quite difficult to see.

Unbelievable - this could SOOOOOO easily happen to us at the bike races, some times we can hardly fully open the door we are that close to the next van..... there will be changes this year.
Dee

ps why did the owners at the end not move their vans when the fire had started? - i would have been moving my van pretty quickish....

pps Willie, how lucky an escape did you have, wow just as well someone heard the noise and had your number to call.

Yea Deirdre. Very lucky indeed the gentleman who rang me had put my number into his phone about half an hour before that as he wanted some work done. I have thought about it many times and we have talked about it just how lucky we were.