For the second time in less than 24 hours, a spectacular fire erupted inside a truck near Truro, N.S. on Thursday.
The driver says he had just fueled up and was on his way with a trailer full of chicken when he smelled fumes and saw smoke coming from underneath the cab.
He pulled over in the Cineplex parking lot at the Truro Power Centre and quickly jumped out of the cab.
No one was injured and firefighters managed to extinguish the flames.
The incident happened just a few hundred yards away from the scene of a diesel truck fire Wednesday evening.
The tanker truck was carrying thousands of litres of fuel when it broke an axle and then erupted in flames on Highway 102, forcing the evacuation of several homes and businesses in the area.
No one was injured.
Fire crews battled the blaze for hours and were able to extinguish most of the flames by 9 p.m. People were then allowed to return home.
A section of Highway 102 was shut down in both directions for more than four hours Wednesday, forcing motorists to take a long detour.
One northbound lane will remain closed for a few days until that section of highway is repaired.
Nova Scotia Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan says the heat from the fire was so intense that it melted several layers of the roadway.
“It’s obviously very deep. It looks like the diesel got into multiple layers of the paving itself, so we’re probably into structural changes,” says MacLellan.
Environment Minister Randy Delorey says a small amount of the fuel that leaked near the truck has been contained while the bulk of what it was carrying -- some 16,000 litres -- was burned off in the fire.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Ron Shaw and The Canadian Press
