{"id":49169,"date":"2014-03-05T07:06:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=49169"},"modified":"2014-03-05T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:06:26","slug":"semi-catches-fire-in-paulding-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/03\/05\/semi-catches-fire-in-paulding-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi catches fire in Paulding County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ohio State Highway Patrol information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a commercial vehicle fire that occurred on U.S. 24, near U.S. 127 north of Paulding in Crane Township.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, the Crane Township Fire Department was dispatched to a commercial semi-truck fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/osplogo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2340\" alt=\"osplogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/osplogo.gif\" width=\"121\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>According to investigating Patrol troopers, a 2013 Kenworth semi driven by Jaspal Dosanjh, 33, of Brampton, Ontario, was headed east on U.S. 24 when the driver saw smoke coming from the trailer.\u00a0 He pulled to the side of the road and saw that the rear tires of the trailer were on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Dosanjh attempted to extinguish the fire with his fire extinguisher, but was unable to do so, due to the amount of smoke and flames. The driver then unhooked the trailer and pulled it away before the fire reached the truck cab.<\/p>\n<p>By 4 p.m., the Crane Township Volunteer Fire Department, with assistance from the Paulding Fire Department, had the fire under control. The trailer and its load of oranges were a total loss. Dosanjh was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Highway Patrol was also assisted on scene by the Ohio Department of Transportation, Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Paulding County EMA.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown and still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio State Highway Patrol information PAULDING &#8212; The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a commercial vehicle fire that occurred on U.S. 24, near U.S. 127 north of Paulding in Crane Township. At 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, the Crane Township Fire Department was dispatched to a commercial semi-truck fire. According to investigating Patrol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 09:10:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}