I heard Cencom dispatch Bourbon Fire to a Motor Vehicle Accident, aka MVA, on eastbound I-44 just west of the Bourbon Overpass around 11 am on January 23rd, so I grabbed my camera and drove up there. I came in on the North Service Road, but once I got just out of town, I saw that the black smoke, figured out this was going to be closer to the South Service Road, and drove over to the south side of the interstate. Turned out to be just west of Dillon Garage…Highway Patrol was on scene and one of the firefighters told me they believed this started as a pursuit that resulted in a collision with another vehicle, both the small truck and passenger car leaving the interstate, crossing the southside median, the South Service Road and then winding up in a yard.

Firefighters determined soon after this, that putting the truck fire out would require the use of foam, since the gasoline tank was obviously leaking and fueling the fire, so they set about hooking up the foam eductor system…

Rumor had it at the time, that the driver being pursued, bailed out of the vehicle and ran south away from the interstate on foot, additional officers were searching the area near Bourbon Lakes to find him. Medics worked on the other patient, who was further up on the bank of the yard just west of the accident scene, seen in the first photo above.

First video shows Bourbon Firefighters waiting for their high expansion foam eductor to mix in with the water to produce the bubbles…

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Second video shows firefighters continuing to extinguish the fire with the high expansion foam hoseline…

AVI 60 MVA Rollover With Fire 217 MM EB 44 New Yrs Day 2023

The truck was carrying a couple of ladders on a rack in the bed, lost them while rolling several times as it came off the interstate….