Someone took an electric drill to punch a hole in the first vehicle’s gas tank, The drill apparently created sparks, which don’t mix well with gasoline.
In an apparent gasoline theft gone very wrong, six cars were destroyed in an Antioch BART parking lot Thursday after someone took an electric drill to punch a hole in the first vehicle’s gas tank, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman said.
The drill apparently created sparks, which don’t mix well with gasoline. The result was leaking, burning gasoline traveling down the slight slope of the parking lot to catch five other vehicles on fire. Fire district spokesperson Steve Hill said firefighters were on scene four minutes after calls came in at 2:02 p.m. Thursday.
By then, two cars were engulfed in flames and four more were on their way to being destroyed in the eBART parking lot, adjacent to Slatten Ranch Road.
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