Nobody was injured but a farm truck’s engine compartment and cab were destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon in Wellington. The older model International truck had just turned north onto the Nine Mile Canyon Road from US-6 when the driver became aware it was on fire, stopped and bailed out.
Assistant Wellington Fire Chief George Anderson said the call came at about 3:50 p.m. It was reported as a big truck vehicle fire at the Walker Fuel and Truck Stop, and Wellington Fire responded with two engines and a full crew of firefighters.
The truck turned out to be a large home-built “Honey Wagon.” Anderson said there wasn’t much flame because the old truck, “wasn’t loaded up with plastic the way they are now.” But the cargo bed was fully loaded and the truck’s owner, a local landowner and farmer, said he wished he could have got it unloaded before the truck burned because now he has to do it by hand.
Anderson said the cause of the fire has not been determined. He said it’s fortunate firefighters were able to save the cargo, “So there was no adverse effect on air quality.”
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