{"id":18682,"date":"2025-02-13T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/bystanders-wake-sleeping-truck-driver-before-he-burns-to-death-in-truck-fire\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:23:21","slug":"bystanders-wake-sleeping-truck-driver-before-he-burns-to-death-in-truck-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/bystanders-wake-sleeping-truck-driver-before-he-burns-to-death-in-truck-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Bystanders wake sleeping truck driver before he burns to death in truck fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Some Good Samaritans saved a man from potentially serious injuries by waking the sleeping truck driver when his rig caught fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at about 2:15 a.m. at 1025 Locust Point Road in York County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UnionFire23\/posts\/pfbid02Wf8e7jeKcVXBPGMKUQ8BeWP239vJvH6PvwMziMwoYXDkVNcbwDXZxRaZCny8gxnkl?rdid=2yt8bheWKRA614Ky#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Union Fire Company<\/a>, fire crews were called on reports of a vehicle fire at a loading dock. When crews arrived, they found a tractor trailer was on fire parked at one of the docks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire began in the engine of the tractor trailer and spread into the trailer after the refrigeration system caught fire. The fire sent smoke billowing into the nearby building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders who witnessed the fire say they had to wake the sleeping truck driver, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/this-is-what-you-do-if-you-see-the-black-dog\/\">resting<\/a> in the sleeper berth, to warn him of the blaze. He was able to escape the cab safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, but the semi truck was a complete loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/bystanders-wake-sleeping-truck-driver-before-he-burns-to-death-in-truck-fire\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Good Samaritans saved a man from potentially serious injuries by waking the sleeping truck driver when his rig caught fire.\u00a0 The incident happened at about 2:15 a.m. at 1025 Locust Point Road in York County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 According to the Union Fire Company, fire crews were called on reports of a vehicle fire at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}