Though nothing can be confirmed until the autopsy is conducted, Mortis says they are still gathering information as to what may have ignited the fire. He says it could be a number of things:
Kenneth Mortis, Belize National Fire Service
"We know the impact we know what the impact is going to cause we realize that the flip of this vehicle is as a result of the impact however when you look at all these factors could we have had a loose fuel pump could we have had a loose fuel filter all those combine with a simple spark will definitely lead to a fire how long before this accident happened and how long between the accident happening and we receiving the call that's something that we cannot determine as yet because looking at where they are at we have and we are still publicizing our 990 hotline throughout the entire country of Belize who was the first passerby to observe this scene and which number did they call Versus like I said there are varying factors while all this is happening that spark will ignite a fire and then after that it's just a trail of fuel so to speak that leads directly to the fuel tank once that reaches its ignition phase you will have an explosion."
We have confirmed that the vehicle was not butane fueled.
