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Explosions, fires: a thousand dangers for firefighters on modern cars

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Airbags, gas generators, seat belt pretensioners, explosive charges, control units, pedestrian-saving systems that cause the hood to pop up suddenly, pneumatic shock absorbers, preloaded springs, lithium-ion batteries, fuel tank: modern cars they are full of traps for firefighters who have to intervene with shears or pneumatic spacers to extract victims of road accidents from the cockpit. Just cut in the wrong place and you risk being electrocuted or victims of a strong explosion.

For this reason, for years now, firefighters always do one thing before dissecting a car: they type the car license plate on their PDA where an app goes back from the license plate to the chassis number, then to the factory that product that explains in graphs or tables with which dangerous devices the machine left the production chain.

On the most modern cars, firefighters can also tear off the plastic refueling flap (it is specially made to be easily removed), frame a QR code and have all the necessary information on the fly. What you will see is exactly the pattern that we report below. That is a hell of danger spots.

In short, the work of the firefighters in the event of a road accident becomes increasingly difficult: intervening on a hybrid, electric, latest generation car requires very high preparation to avoid trouble. To the point that every car manufacturer produces guides on how to intervene and on all possible traps.

But “how difficult” this preparation is is impossible to imagine: we came into possession of a confidential document that Mercedes produced for the “Feuerwehrleute” the German firefighters. And it is an impressive document (which you can read in full version below): seventy pages of explanations, graphics, diagrams and modus operandi to intervene on their latest “creature”, the S-Class. A real hell.

We are sure that the professionalism of the firefighters will lead them to carefully study these kinds of complicated engineering books, but the doubts remain: how does a body in constant emergency manage to cope with the hundred new car models that are launched every year on the market from 24 different car manufacturers? Where will they find the time to read up on these new spaceships with wheels that plow our roads?

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