The Brief<\/p>\n
A truck driver is in critical condition with severe burns after his 9,000-gallon gasoline tanker ignited following a crash in Fort Worth early Sunday.<\/p>\n
Officials said the driver was attempting to use specialized equipment to shield a nearby gas station from the flames when downed power lines caused the surrounding fuel to catch fire.<\/p>\n
Hazardous materials teams worked for several hours to contain the massive blaze, and no other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas – A truck driver is in critical condition after a car struck his gasoline tanker in Fort Worth early Sunday morning, sparking a massive fire that burned for several hours.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Fort Worth firefighters responded to the intersection of Trinity Boulevard and Highway 360 shortly after the collision occurred. Investigators say a passenger car struck the tanker, which was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline, causing the truck to ignite and knocking down nearby power lines.<\/p>\n
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Hazardous materials teams were called to the scene to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n
The driver of the 18-wheeler was attempting to deploy specialized equipment to prevent the fire from spreading into a nearby gas station parking lot when the gasoline around him ignited, likely due to the downed power lines.<\/p>\n
The driver was rushed to a local hospital with severe burns and was last reported to be in critical condition. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this article comes from the Fort Worth Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A truck driver is in critical condition with severe burns after his 9,000-gallon gasoline tanker ignited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[980,15877,116,118,117,91198,91352,91351,50230,91350,91274],"class_list":{"0":"post-237502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-critical-condition","9":"tag-downed-power-lines","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-gasoline-tanker","14":"tag-massive-fire","15":"tag-nearby-gas-station","16":"tag-severe-burns","17":"tag-specialized-equipment","18":"tag-truck-driver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237502","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=237502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}