Tractor trailer overturns and starts fire along I-40


Audio|Source: The Lookout Mountain Amateur Radio Community Repeater System
01:20
Transcript:
construction going on over there, but was there an accident or something, some kind of incident? You know, I never saw what it was as backed up. Of course, they're working there, and it's one lane where (name withheld) did all that damage down there along the Pigeon River. But, man, it was just backed up like a parking lot. And then got through that, and then on the eastbound side of 40, between Knoxville and Newport, well, actually not far from severe, well, there was a tractor trailer turned over and caught the field on fire. The firefighters were out there trying to put out the tractor trailer and the field, and the median was burning, and the truck was burning, so the eastbound side was backed up. A lot of people on the westbound side. we're stopping to look at it, you know. Oh, gosh, yeah. I know all about that. You know, we actually, we had a store that we delivered to over there right at Pizzin River in the Gorge. I think it's called the Smokehouse. I don't think it's open right now because it got flooded out this time over there about, you know, halfway through the Gorge.
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I-40, Newport, TN
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