[UPDATE 3:42 p.m.: Video] Semi Catches Fire Near Loleta
Screenshot of video courtesy of Channel 7
The engine of a big rig carrying wood chips caught fire about 9:44 a.m. on Hwy 101 near the Loleta offramp, according to the CHP Traffic Incident Information Page.
One lane is still closed as of 11 a.m.
The cab is completely burned but the trailer remained mostly undamaged according the CHP page.
No ambulance responded to the scene.
Please remember that information gathered from initial reports is subject to revision as more facts become available.
UPDATE 3:42 p.m.: Video by Bailee Mooney.
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This must be burn up your big rig month! Glad the driver got out with no injuries.
Was it a Mattel truck?
I drove by northbound about 10. Lots of smoke and flames. Glad to hear no reports of injury.
This is only semi-bad news.
The good news is there were no injuries.
I just passed the tow truck with what was left of the cab. There was barely a frame left… nothing else.
Gary Alto driving a A and N logging //chip truck looking like another Particular filter plug up causing a truck melt down THANK YOU C.A.R.B have to love your California regulations not the first one to happen in California.
These will continue to happen because of CARB Laws. Some how some political figure got paid a lot of money to spread Uric Acid into the environment, causing many fires as a result. The particulate filters have to get extremely hot in order to burn off (clean it’s self).
are those on passenger vehicles as well?