Updated: 6:21 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, 2008 | Posted: 2:05 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, 2008
SEATTLE —
The truck fire was on the shoulder of the road and started shortly after 2 p.m. Friday.
All lanes of north I-5 at Mercer Street were blocked while crews put out the fire. Chopper 7 over the scene showed traffic backed up for miles.
Brush above the freeway also caught on fire, said WSDOT.
There is no word on the cause of that truck fire.
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