VIDEO: A semi-truck caught on fire at a local gas station this afternoon in Yuma.
"We got the call at about 12:20 pm," Yuma Metro Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Woodruff said. "A semi-truck on fire, endangering the gas station, upon arrival, we did have a semi and trailer fully engulfed."
Yuma Rural Metro and the Yuma Fire Department responded to the fire call just before 12:30 p.m.
The semi caught fire while at the Speedway gas station located on East 32nd Street.
"The area is still dangerous," Yuma Fire Department Captain Victor Garcia said. "There is a lot of damage especially to the canopy."