Sunday night, August 1st, I was trying to begin to catch up on the site when we were toned out for a tractor trailer fire…so I grabbed my camera and Missy and I headed for the truck…I heard the pumper and tanker respond and another driver waiting for a crew so I decided to go direct….we caught up to the tanker on the interstate a few miles out of town and I could see the pumper ahead of it a mile or two, and a heavy cloud of dark brown smoke looming above the pumper in the distance against the night sky…….we got on the scene and I parked in a driveway off the Service Road just past the old Kovacs Restaurant and grabbed my flashgun and walked across the road…helped Engineer Ray Enloe pull the hoseline and straighten the kinks out, and turned on my flash, and took the first shot of the tractor cab fully involved as the guys were bleeding the air out of the line and getting ready to attack the fire…

Dave and Gary bled the air from the hoseline and approached the tractor on fire….

and started attacking the flames from the Service Road side…

and….

I turned my flash off for the next shot….

and as St Clair pulled up on the opposite side and stopped traffic, their cab lights cast a pinkish glow on the smoke and steam….

and…

St Clair provided a crew to assist and even with the flashgun I was able to capture some neat smoke and motion images…

and…

and pretty soon it was under control and we were able to release a lane of backed up westbound traffic….

and there wasn`t much left of the cab and motor….