U.S. Postal Service Car Catches Fire In Menlo Park

MENLO PARK, CA -- A mail delivery car caught on fire in Menlo Park on Friday. Fire officials said they received a report of a car fire around 12 p.m. Friday at 251 Oakhurst Place.

When officials arrived they found a U.S. Postal Service Mail Carrier car on fire with the postal agent safely outside of the vehicle, Menlo Park Fire District said. The fire was extinguished within 15 minutes.

Captain Tony Eggimann said “once we saw it was a mail delivery vehicle on fire we approached with caution not knowing if the contents had started the fire. Once we determined that was not the case, we focused our efforts to protecting the contents and then extinguishing the main body of the fire."

Firefighters stayed on-scene until the mail was safely transferred to another carrier's vehicle. The damaged delivery vehicle was removed from the neighborhood around 2 p.m.

The Postal Service will be conducting an investigation of the fire, officials said.

--Photo courtesy of Menlo Park Fire District