PHOTOS: A trucker was able to jump out of a burning semi after it caught fire coming out the Eisenhower Tunnel Tuesday evening.
“The driver managed to roll up the [I-70] runaway truck ramp and escape safely,” Summit Fire and EMS said in a social media post.
Once safely out of the vehicle, the driver tried to put the blaze out himself, Summit County emergency responders said.
“The driver tried to put out the fire with a couple of on-board extinguishers, but it had grown too quickly and even spread to some nearby vegetation,” Summit Fire wrote on Facebook. “Our c-shift crews and our Wildland Division (shaking the rust off their skills at an ideal time of year) backed by several from Breckenridge-based Red, White & Blue Fire and Mountain Recovery Towing, were able to stop the fire from spreading further and extinguish.”