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Fiery Truck Plunge Kills Driver in California

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Truck Drops 40 ft. From Overpass

A TRACTOR-TRAILER MARKED WITH ACE HARDWARE logo's collided with a pickup truck on a Vallejo, California, roadway this morning (Thursday) around 6:45 am Pacific.  The blow caused the larger truck to careen to the side which happened to be on an overpass where the rig went through the guard rail and dropped about 40 feet to the land below.  It landed on its side and shortly after started burning. 

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The San Francisco Chronicle explains:

Witnesses who had been driving on Highway 29, including an off-duty paramedic, ran to the truck and found the driver hanging upside down, tangled in his seat belt, said CHP Officer Chris Parker. They pulled the driver out of the truck and he was taken to a hospital, where he died, said CHP Officer James Evans.

The pickup truck driver was not injured.

Firefighters let the truck burn because they were unsure of what was inside, Parker said. The fire officers reported a series of small explosions taking place as the fire grew.  The Solano County hazardous materials team also responded to the scene.

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Posted by on January 10, 2013 • Filed under: fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Fires • Tagged: , ,

Fire Photog First-In On Truck Fire

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Two Tractor-Trailers Collide, One Burns

911PHOTOGRAPHY CHIEF HONCHO STEVE ROTH was a man of many hats Monday when he was right behind a rear-end collision of two tractor trailer rigs in dense fog on U. S. 15 in Adams County, Pennsylvania.  He donned his first hat when he reported the accident to the Adams County 911 Center, then switched to his EMT hat to make sure the drivers were out and ok.  Just then a fire started up in the engine area of the 2nd truck that had rear-ended the other.

Steve's firefighter hat didn't stay on too long because his personal fire extinguisher was depleted quickly with minimal effect.  York Springs Engine 9-2 and Ambulance 9A arrived to find the truck's cab fully involved.  After a brief session wearing his traffic controller's cap, Steve put on his photographer's backwards ball cap and began shooting the action using both still and video cameras.

He tells us that the engine used a 1-¾" line for the knockdown and followed up with foam application for the burning fuel that was leaking onto the roadway.  The drivers were checked for minor injuries and apparently not transported.  Tanker 9 and Engine 25-2 from Heidlersburg assisted as did the Adams County Haz-Mat unit.

View Steve's entire 29-image photo gallery plus seven videos HERE.  (the video links are the thumbnails following the photos on page 2)

 

You may want to bookmark the 911Photography WEBSITE HERE to view archived incidents and check periodically for current postings by the photo crew.

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Posted by on December 10, 2012 • Filed under: fire, Fires, Videos • Tagged: ,

Freeway Traffic Backed Up by Truck Fire – NBC News4 On the Scene:

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Camera Rolls Before the FD Arrives

LOS ANGELES NBC4 CAMERAMAN / REPORTER Joel Cooke was returning to the station after filing a story in Newport Beach Friday morning when the station's truck caught fire on the freeway.  He was the only passenger in the truck and got out safely.  They don't say anything about whether his $150,000 camera made it, though.  Interestingly, this photo published on KNBC's own webpage was taken by a passerby.

Click HERE to read their side of the story.

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Posted by on September 2, 2011 • Filed under: fire, Fires • Tagged: ,

Linesman Makes Daring Fire Rescue

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Sign This Guy Up!

AN ELECTRIC CO. LINESMAN WAS working off of a bucket Tuesday in Somerville, Massachusetts, when a hydraulic line burst and started a fire in the bucket.  With the truck's motor running and causing the hydraulic pump to keep feeding the flames, the entire bucket and the nearby transformer were quickly becoming fully involved.  The linesman desperately leaped from the burning platform and grabbed the power lines, hanging on for dear life.  (Note:  One of our readers points out that is probably a cable tv line he is grasping….ed.)

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Fortunately for him, another truck was working nearby and that linesman drove immediately to the scene and started up his platform to rescue the trapped co-worker.  As he got close, his own truck started catching on fire from the first one and the stranded worker swung out and dropped into the rescue bucket.  Adding to the risk, flaming debris dropped onto a car directly underneath the men and it began burning as well, creating still another hot spot to get out of.

As they were lowering down to the ground level, the second truck was burning so fiercely that they both had to dive onto the truck's cab before it reached the  ground.

A neighbor who heard the initial noise from the fire grabbed his videocam and recorded the entire event. 

Update:  For whatever reason, Wicked Local has removed the videos and withdrawn permission to post them.  You can still view the news report from WCVB-TV that includes part of it HERE.

The entire video can be viewed on Wicked Local's website HERE.

Both power company trucks and the affected car were all total losses.

The Somerville News has the story and more photos HERE.
Wicked Local has MORE.

Hat tip:  Frank Lee

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Posted by on July 6, 2011 • Filed under: fire, Fires, rescue, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: , ,

Horse Collision Starts Fire

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A Small Herd Was Charging At Him Head-on

A UTAH MAN WAS DRIVING HOME TO PROVO in his pickup truck in foggy conditions Sunday night when he came across a small herd of perhaps six horses running straight at him.  “I mostly just hit the brakes and hoped for the best. There wasn’t a whole lot of time to think,” Austin Hills told a KSTU-TV reporter.  Unfortunately, he slammed into two of them killing them instantly.  The damage to his pickup was extensive and caused a fire to start that burned up the truck. 

KSTU-TV Ch. 13 filed this video report that includes some cellphone footage of the fire:

 

Hills, who was uninjured, and a passerby were able to round up the other loose horses and corraled them in a nearby field.  Another rancher is caring for them while the Utah Highway Patrol attempt to locate the owner.

Posted by on January 11, 2011 • Filed under: fire, Fires, Videos • Tagged: , , ,

Truck Fire Ties Up Indy Traffic Thursday

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A TRACTOR-TRAILER HAULING 1,800 CASES OF BEER wrecked and burned Thursday morning on I-70 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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The truck was traveling westbound around 2 am and entering a construction zone that has temporary lane shifts erected.  The driver admitted that he mis-judged the lane changes and he struck one of the jersey walls, ripping open a full saddle tank of fuel and starting a fire.  The truck began burning immediately while he was still moving and he had to bring it to a stop and bail out, jumping through the flames into the center lane that was fortunately vacant as auto traffic backed off from the blazing truck.

Wayne Township firefighters responded along with a haz-mat team and extinguished the fire, but the entire rig was ablaze when they arrived and all was lost.  The westbound lanes of the freeway remained closed this morning while the beer was transferred to another truck and the burned out hulk was righted and towed away.

WTHR-TV Ch. 13 has this video report from the scene:

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Posted by on June 10, 2010 • Filed under: beer, fire, Fires, Videos • Tagged: , , , ,

Truck Fire in Hartford Tunnel

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A TRACTOR-TRAILER CRASH AND FIRE IN DOWNTOWN HARTFORD, Connecticut, early Saturday morning snarled traffic for hours.  Just before 3 am the truck hauling a load of furniture was taking the ramp from I-84 to I-91 and just after entering a tunnel beneath the junction it smashed into the median barrier.  The crash ripped open the fuel tank and the leaking product was ignited, creating a river of fire into the storm sewers.

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Within moments there was a trailer on fire in the tunnel and fire shooting out of sewer manholes all along the interchange.  Most of the Hartford Fire Department was on the scene and they quickly knocked down the fire.

WFSB-TV has the video report:

The driver was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Posted by on April 24, 2010 • Filed under: fire, Fires, HazMat, Videos • Tagged: , ,