Van catches fire in West Sedona parking lot1 min read

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Christopher Fox Graham
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Sedona Fire district firefighters cut into the hood of a van, which caught fire around 1:20 p.m., Friday, July 23, in the New Marketplace, in West Sedona.
Photo courtesy of Ron Draxler

A van caught fire around 1:20 p.m., Friday, June 23, in the New Marketplace Plaza parking lot.A 1992 Dodge Ram 250 caught fire around 1:20 p.m., on Friday, July 23, in the New Marketplace Plaza parking lot.

The fire was likely a fuel-related engine malfunction, according to Sedona Fire District Fire Marshal Will Loesche.

Sedona Fire District firefighters cover an SUV parked alongside the van, which caught fire around 1:20 p.m., Friday, July 23, in West Sedona.The fire spread to the interior of the van.Loesche said the driver tried starting the engine several times before the engine caught on fire.

Firefighters removed some of the driver's belongings from the fire-damaged van.The fire spread from the engine into the passenger side of the van as SFD firefighters arrived.

A Sedona Fire District firefighter checks for smouldering inside a van, which caught fire around 1:20 p.m., Friday, June 23, in the New Marketplace Plaza parking lot.Damage to the interior front compartment was extensive. 

The fire was quickly extinguished by firefighters.

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Sedona police directed traffic to other entrances.

Sedona Fire District firefighters extinguish the smouldering engine, which had earlier sent plumes of smoke into the air.The van was totaled, Loesche said. Due to the location of the fire in the engine, other vehicles parked on either side were not damaged.A melted dashboard and interior of a Dodge van shows how hot a vehicle fire got when it burned at a West Sedona business parking lot Friday, July 23. According to Sedona Fire District Fire Marshal Will Loesche, the blaze was likely a fuel-related engine malfunction and spread from the engine into the passenger side of the van as SFD firefighters arrived and quickly extinguished the flames. No one was injured in the fire and nearby vehicles were saved by the quick response of SFD.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."

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