Red Smoke, Alpine Pdx Amp?

[shanusr33]

Scariest thing ever happened yesterday when i took my R33 out for a drive for the first time in about a month!

On princess hwy I could smell something strange, like rubber, as though burn outs had just been left by someone as i was passing through the intersection, but the smell got worse and it was coming from me!...

next to my arm, coming from my back seats (i have 3 x pdx amps in the rear seats) there was THICK RED SMOKE pouring out from under my 1.1000 mono block amp!! aarrrrgghhh electrical fire! :-(

And my back seats and boot are all made of mdf and fibreglass so i was just hoping she wouldn't catch fire, and i didn't have any screw drivers on me to pull my boot apart to take out the fuses. Left her there, found a screwdriver fixed it up, pulled everything apart and the main fuse for that amp was already blown so how could power still be getting to it? and why was it thick red smoke? At home this morning, I pulled everything apart and can't find any evidence of damage except the amp stinks.

I'll be taking it back to the audio shop today on my lunch break, but i just wanted to know if this has happened to anybody before, what they did, and what it was?

if not, i'll keep you posted with what the shop says.