A garbage truck caught fire at an All American Waste facility in New Haven, Connecticut, July 9 after a compressed natural gas (CNG) tank exploded on the vehicle, the New Haven Register reports.
According to New Haven Emergency Management Director Rick Fontana, the explosion set the middle of the truck ablaze as the truck was returning to the facility around 3 p.m.
While New Haven firefighters were able to contain the fire to the lone vehicle, one All American worker was taken to nearby Yale New Haven Hospital “for evaluation of inhalation of a dry chemical handheld fire extinguisher agent and smoke for attempting to suppress the fire prior to the arrival of (firefighters),” Fontana says.
According to News 3, the worker sustained non-life-threatening injuries from the incident, and is expected to be OK.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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