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Passenger truck and trailer loaded with hay burn in Atascadero

October 28, 2024

By KAREN VELIE

A passenger pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer with numerous bales of hay burned on Morro Road in Atascadero on Saturday afternoon.

Shortly before 3 p.m., a caller reported hay bales on fire on a flatbed. Firefighters took aggressive fire suppression actions and were able to contain the fire to the trailer, saving the truck.

However, the fire did spread to nearby vegetation, but fire personnel were able to quickly stop the spread of the fire. It took about an hour for firefighters to extinguish the blaze. No fire personnel or civilian were injured in the fire.

 


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Nowadays you see these three-quarter and 1 ton pick up trucks hauling loads that are near capacity for the vehicle. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. I’ve seen 1 ton pick up trucks towing trailers with three cars on top of them. It might be fine going down a straight level road, but going uphill and being able to stop the thing going downhill is a whole different story. They’re right on the edge.


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Modern heavy duty pickups can tow a 15,000-35,000 pound trailer, you could not get enough hay on a trailer to exceed the capacity.


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Could have been diesel exhaust performing a regeneration cycle. Gotta love the government mandated emissions systems!


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thank god they don’t allow the storage of these dangerous items within city limits. ban all livestock energy storage systems now!


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Highly likely fire was caused by driver tossing lit cigarette out of his window.


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Most likely caused by over heated brakes on the trailer.


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