Fire on a heavy vehicle in transit onA4 motorway during the night between Friday and Saturday, with the truck driver safe and unharmed and fire fighters people from Vicenza worked for a long time to put out the flames and restore safety conditions on the stretch. The truck he left Bari and it had gone almost without a hitch 850 kilometers but, just on the point of reaching the destination – the destination was a company in Montecchio Maggiore – the unexpected and sudden problem occurred.
The call to 118 requesting emergency intervention from the firefighters came at half past one last night between the motorway junctions of Vicenza East and West in the direction of Milan, when the haulier was now missing one fortnight of kilometers to arrival. A mechanical failure caused the problem, which could have had serious consequences.
The driver driving a three-axle truck he would have heard a loud bang coming from the engine. He immediately pulled over and got out, while the heavy vehicle caught fire. The firefighters arrived from the station with a fire engine, two tankers and 9 operators available for night duty. The group gathered an overview and began the operational phase of putting out the flames, which in the meantime had spread to the entire truck and the cargo, which was destroyed.
The Vicenza Polstrada, responsible for the major motorway communication routes, and the auxiliary motorway personnel also arrived on site within a few minutes. The fire brigade’s complete extinguishing and clean-up operations ended after 4 in the morning.
