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After witnessing the out of control fire at the track tonight when Joey Petyak's car caught fire and began to burn out of control, I believe it is an absolute must that whoever the track gets to watch over the guys and gals racing, must have the proper fire retardant systems in place and enough of it to put out a fire very quickly.  What we witnessed at the track on Friday was absolutely intolerable and can never happen again !  If that young man who I consider a good friend had been knocked unconscious and had not been able to extricate himself from that car, he could at the least been burnt extremely bad or at worst could have lost his life due to improper chemical fire retardant.  This is in no way slamming those brave folks who serve Pine Twp fire dept, but this post is to try and get promoters and track owners to know what kind of foam or other chemical treatments are needed to put out a fire quickly at their tracks !!!!!!  This can never happen again like it did at Dog Hollow or at any other track for that matter. Racers also need to be aware of the safety systems put in place at the venues that they race at,  concerning themselves with what safety crews and equipment is needed when they are in an emergency is too late.  Again race tracks must have what is needed to put out fires for these exotic race fuels or not even offer auto racing at their facilities !!   You could see the fire being spread around when hit with water by the fire crews.  Then they only had one fire extinguisher being used.  The fire was running down and burning all over their hoses and was also running under the fire truck.  This just seemed to be overwhelming for these brave folks and even their safety was being compromised by not being properly equipped with what they needed to put out the racing fuel.  Track promoters, please please learn a lesson from this potential disaster that we all witnessed on Friday and make sure the fire crews know what the hell they may be facing in an accident at your track!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This whole pollitical correct bullcrap is way past out of control.  I don't have a rebel flag either, but by god if a fella or gal wants to fly the flag, then left wing progressive jack asses get the heck out of the way.  We as a country had better get our heads out of our rear ends soon or we as a nation are going to become irrellavent.  There are so many folks that think the left wingers are out of control but unfortunately our voices are not being heard.  The old phrase (the squeaky wheel gets the grease) has never been more plain as day as it is now.  4 people in Oklahoma said they wanted the 10 Commandments taken down and the courts caved to them,  1.9 percent of people in the USA are in the LGBT community and they now dictate what stood as the definition of marriage for thousands of years being changed to suit their needs.  Civil Unions would have sufficed but no we need to change thousands of years of what god said marriage was to now be something it is not ! Please speak out folks before it is too late!  We don't need to be mean and call others names that don't have the same ideals as many of us do, but we also need to make our voices heard!