(Tyler, Texas) – A quick show of hands (I know I can’t see you but play along)…How many remember the experiment in school where you use a magnifying glass with the sunlight going through it onto a sheet of paper to burn the paper? Me too.
Turns out, something we keep in our cars could do the same thing, a water bottle. It doesn’t have to be hot outside, either, for that bottle to possibly do some damage to your vehicle.
The Hidden Danger of Keeping a Water Bottle in Your Car
Firefighter David Richardson of the Midwest City Fire Department in Oklahoma talked with KFOR and said,
The sunlight will come through, when it’s filled with liquid, and act as a magnifying glass as you would with regular optics. It uses the liquid and the clear material to develop a focused beam and sure enough, it can actually cause a fire, a combustion…