A portion of I-95 in Georgia was shut down one day in December, 2008 because of a tractor trailer that was carrying cars caught on fire and turned into a raging inferno. The driver of the truck, Vernard Monroe, pulled his rig off the road when a passing motorist tried to draw his attention to the back of the trailer. He thought it was flat so he got out and found that the tire was on fire. The tire blew out when he pulled over and that’s why the trailer full of cars caught fire.
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Another driver stopped to help Monroe put out the fire but it quickly got out of control. The entire truck became engulfed, including all of the cars it was hauling. The truck belongs to Accurate Auto Carriers out of Michigan. Neither the diesel fuel nor any of the other fluids on the truck itself were what caused the fire to get out of control. It was the gas tanks on the four cars the truck was hauling that fed the inferno.
