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Clothes Cargo Ignites, Causes 10-Mile Backup

Posted: July 16, 2012

By PETE DeLEA

Firefighters pull smoldering clothing from a tractor-trailer that caught fire near Weyers Cave on Interstate 81 Sunday afternoon. The truck had been moved to a BP station off I-81 to help get traffic moving again. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Earlier, motorists along I-81 southbound stretched their legs as they waited for firefighters to knock down the blaze while the truck was still on the interstate.

WEYERS CAVE — A tractor-trailer fire fueled by the load of clothing it was carrying snarled traffic on Interstate 81 near the Augusta-Rockingham county line for several hours Sunday afternoon.
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