Tractor Trailer | Firegeezer

BRAZIL, INDIANA, FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED on the scene of a vehicle fire last night to find a tractor-trailer well involved and not-so-well positioned at a set of gasoline pumps.

brazil a WTWO

WTWO-TV

The fire was reported shortly before 10 pm Central time Thursday night. The pumps had been shut down and the FD evacuated the area until they had the fire safely extinguished. The cargo which was burning was entirely plastic goods.

WTHI-TV Terre Haute has a brief video clip of the fire:

The fire destroyed the trailer, but no injuries were reported. Firefighters were challenged with roiling flames and heavy smoke as they worked to extinguish the blaze in the trailer that extended out from under the fuel pump island’s roof.

WTWO-TV is reporting that the driver left the truck unattended while he was fueling and the fire began while he was gone. The fire department was hindered by frozen hydrants in the area.

A MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH AT A MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE TOLLBOOTH sent one man to the hospital after he miraculously escaped serious injury. Three tractor-trailers collided, crushing the man’s car between two of them, and two truck trailers overturned with one of them spilling a load of fresh beef carcasses across the roadway around 2:30 am this morning.

The incident started when one of the trucks rear-ended another one as it was passing through the EasyPass lane the toll plaza. The police are saying that the first truck struck the toll booth before the wreck, but the driver says he was rear-ended into the booth.

WCVB-TV Ch. 5 Boston has some video footage from the crash scene:

Three of the eleven traffic lanes at the toll plaza are blocked while efforts are underway to clear the wreckage. In order to lessen the effect on the morning rush-hour, the turnpike authorities are opening all lanes and waiving the toll charges to keep the traffic flowing as well as they can.

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