{"id":248878,"date":"2022-05-19T09:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=248878"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:42:52","slug":"propane-truck-tire-fire-on-i94-by-tower-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=248878","title":{"rendered":"Propane truck tire fire on I94 by Tower City May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDHPpatch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13707\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDHPpatch-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDHPpatch-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDHPpatch-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDHPpatch.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>May 18 at 11:40 am, Mark Wendt of Warner SD was eastbound on I-94 a few miles west of Tower City in a 2018 Mack semi-truck towing a trailer loaded with 9,000 gallons of propane.<\/p>\n<p>Wendt heard a loud bang and noticed shredded tire in his rear-view mirror on his truck. He slowed and stopped on the shoulder. Seconds later, the blown tire ignited. Wendt retrieved a fire extinguisher but was unable to keep the fire out.<\/p>\n<p>A McKenzie county deputy passing through attempted a second extinguisher. The fire reignited. A Barnes county deputy arrived and attempted to extinguish the fire but it continued to reignite. A short time later, the Barnes county fire department arrived and put out the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was not injured. The truck suffered extensive damage to the rear tire area. The propane tank had mainly cosmetic damage at the front end.<br \/>\nNo propane leaked or caught fire. The truck and trailer were towed from the scene.<br \/>\nThe incident remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 18 at 11:40 am, Mark Wendt of Warner SD was eastbound on I-94 a few miles west of Tower City in a 2018 Mack semi-truck towing a trailer loaded with 9,000 gallons of propane. Wendt heard a loud bang and noticed shredded tire in his rear-view mirror on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":248879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249342,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248878\/revisions\/249342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/248879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}