The ball joint so my 1995 Lincoln Town car have fell off the lower controller arm is badly damaged and I get a lot of misfires in the engine is just a lot of stuff this wrong with

- Simpsonville, SC, USA

[xxx] drove [xxx] 1995 Lincoln Town car for day and arrived home between 5:00 to 5:30 P.M. on 3/4/13. [xxx] pulled Lincoln into garage next to [xxx] 1956 Ford thunderbird. [xxx] pulled into driveway outside garage door behind Town car with our minivan and went into garage to put some things away. [xxx] shut garage door and went outside garage door into house to put purse inside. [xxx]immediately went back outside and went to deck to water plants and smelled and noticed smoke was coming out of side garage door. [xxx] opened side garage door and saw fire coming out of hood on driver's side of Lincoln Town car and spreading. [xxx] ran inside house got [xxx] and told him about fire and call 911.[xxx] grabbed keys to minivan and house phone and called 911. [xxx] came out, and tried to put water on fire but was unable to because of heat. When [xxx] first saw car there was a hole burned through metal hood to about 3 feet in diameter in front of fire wall of driver's side of Lincoln Town car. There was a burst of flames and engine compartment basically exploded with more fire, and jock ran from garage because flames were burning his head and skin. [xxx] pulled minivan out of driveway and ran back to garage to find [xxx]. when [xxx] ran back to front yard looking for [xxx], firemen were already at house, [xxx] was yelling at firemen to find jock and dogs. They were able to break through fence on left side (East) of house and get [xxx] and dogs out of back yard. The neighbor behind our house came over to say she heard loud popping noises and saw huge flames from garage; she had called 911 as well. The fire was so extreme it burned whole garage with Lincoln and 1956 thunderbird, and then fire consumed house. There were eight fire trucks called to house to eventually control fire. Information redacted pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).

- Houston, TX, USA