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Semitrailer ‘burns to the ground,’ sparking small wildfire after taking runaway ramp on I-70 (Summit Daily News) 

A semitrailer went up in a blaze after its brakes caught fire and it went charging up a runaway truck ramp on Interstate 70 west of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels on Tuesday, April 30. Charlie Stubblefield, the owner of the Silverthorne-based towing company Mountain Recovery, said no one was hurt in the incident but that the wreck was one of the most destructive he’s seen on the Straight Creek runaway truck ramp. Read more ... 

A vehicle on a road with heavy black smoke rising from the side suggests a fire incident.