1:03 PM: If you’ve seen smoke and/or the big Seattle Fire response – a tanker truck caught fire in the 2500 block of 11th SW on Harbor Island. SFD says the fire was in the truck’s engine and did NOT spread to its tank(s). Smoke was visible for some distance for a while – thanks to Creighton for the photo.
2:12 PM: From SFD via Twitter:
Investigator searching for cause of semi truck engine fire on harbor island. Tanks of truck empty pic.twitter.com/86i8ncgwbB
— Seattle Fire Dept (@SeattleFire) July 13, 2014
3:05 PM: And an update:
Cause of Harbor Island semi tractor fire was most likely electrical malfunction in engine. Damage estimate $200k pic.twitter.com/cUUz5WWe0F
— Seattle Fire Dept (@SeattleFire) July 13, 2014
MONDAY AFTERNOON POSTSCRIPT: Noted in the comment discussion – the firefighting wasn’t over yet when we published the first paragraph – the fire spread to tanks later, explains SFD spokesperson Kyle Moore: “When the first engine arrived the flames had not spread to the tanker. By the time we extinguished the fire the tank did burn. The tanks were empty and there wasn’t any fuel in them.”
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