Boy howdy, I'd hate to be this Zamboni driver!

[skateycat]

Here's what happens when a Zamboni catches fire during an ice resurfacing...

 

[shan]

Here's what happens when a Zamboni catches fire during an ice resurfacing...

Scary!!

 

[Sylvia]

Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle article:

Ice-resurfacing machine catches fire while cleaning Brighton rink; driver extinguishes blaze

The machine's operator, who drove the the fiery vehicle off the ice and extinguished the blaze, is unhurt.

www.democratandchronicle.com

It doesn’t get any more 2020 than this: A manned ice-resurfacing machine caught fire Wednesday evening while cleaning one of the rinks at Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex near Monroe Community College in Brighton.
In the incident, videos of which have gone viral, flames ignited beneath the moving vehicle before quickly spreading to its entire back portion.
A hose carrying hydraulic fluid broke, and the leaking fluid was ignited by a hot exhaust pipe underneath the driver's seat, the ice arena explained in a statement, adding, "This was truly a fluke accident."

Curtis extinguished the blaze himself after getting the machine to a maintenance area, Fleming said. "Then we responded, and when we got there, we helped him get the Zamboni outside and made sure the fire was completely out."
People commonly refer to ice-resurfacing machines as Zambonis after inventor Frank Zamboni and the company that bears his name. However, the machine in this incident was an Olympia-brand ice resurfacer, said Joe Dolce, the venue's director of sponsorships and events.

 

[misskarne]

The hydraulic fluid being blood-red was a particularly nice touch!

 

[PairSkater12345]

Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle article:

Ice-resurfacing machine catches fire while cleaning Brighton rink; driver extinguishes blaze

The machine's operator, who drove the the fiery vehicle off the ice and extinguished the blaze, is unhurt.

www.democratandchronicle.com

For clarification that was not a Zamboni.

 

[skateycat]

Zamboni is just one of dozens of brand names that people have come to use as generic terms. Some of them are more obvious than others - that Dumpster was originally a brand name is most surprising to me - they probably don't want to be associated with the dumpster fire that their product has come to be associated with.

 

[Lanie]

I would not want to be that driver.