A tanker truck in Texas hauling gasoline erupted into a fiery blaze Sunday after colliding with another vehicle and knocking over power lines, leaving the truck driver in critical condition, Fort Worth authorities said.<\/p>\n
The 18-wheeler was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline that began leaking after the truck spun off the road near a gas station. <\/p>\n
The downed power lines then sparked a fire around 1 a.m., Fort Worth Fire Department spokesperson Craig Trojacek said.<\/p>\n
A tanker truck in Texas hauling gasoline erupted into a fiery blaze on Sunday morning after colliding with another vehicle and knocking over power lines, leaving the truck driver in critical condition. AP News<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver of the 18-wheeler was trying to do everything he could to keep the gas from draining into the parking lot of the Valero gas station when it lit off,\u201d Trojacek said.<\/p>\n
The driver was hospitalized with burns, but no one else was injured, Trojacek said.<\/p>\n
Fire crews spent hours spraying the tanker with water and used sand to try and contain the gasoline, he said. <\/p>\n
Firefighters left the scene around 7 a.m.<\/p>\n
The 18-wheeler was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline that began leaking after the truck spun off the road near a gas station. AP News<\/p>\n
The driver was hospitalized with burns, but no one else was injured. AP News<\/p>\n
Videos of the fire show what appears to be front of the truck engulfed in flames as plumes of smoke rise.<\/p>\n
One witness, Bailey Moss, said he was staying with a friend nearby when he heard \u201ca loud crash\u201d and peered outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fire spread quickly, and you could feel the heat even from a distance. It was pretty intense,\u201d Moss said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tanker truck in Texas hauling gasoline erupted into a fiery blaze Sunday after colliding with another vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3002,497,462,10470,27,29,28,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-236815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-fires","9":"tag-gas","10":"tag-oil","11":"tag-power","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}