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Trailer carrying 27K pounds of strawberries catches fire on I-70 in Westmoreland County

Strawberry Trailer Fire (Rostraver Township Fire Department)

A trailer carrying tens of thousands of pounds of strawberries caught fire along a major Westmoreland County roadway over the weekend.

The Rostraver Township Fire Department said crews extinguished a fire in a refrigerated van trailer hauling 27,000 pounds of California strawberries.

One person was taken to a hospital from the scene with a foot injury.

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