The Jamestown Rural Fire Department spent about six hours at the scene of a truck fire Thursday night into early Friday morning, according to Ben Maulding, fire chief.
Nine firefighters and three units responded to a report of a semi on fire on the U.S. Highway 281 bypass west of Jamestown about 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The van trailer of the rig was hauling dry pasta.
Maulding said the fire started in the tractor of the semi and had spread to the trailer and load by the time units arrived. Firefighters extinguished the exterior fire in less than an hour during which time traffic on the bypass was blocked.
“We had to unload pallets of pasta to get at the fire inside the trailer,” Maulding said.
That process took several hours, he said.
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The cause of the fire was electrical or mechanical in the tractor of the rig, Maulding said. The semi tractor, trailer and contents were all total losses, Maulding said. No one was injured.
