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Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 04.28.2007

Wisconsin State Patrol trooper rescues trucker
4/28/07

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KENOSHA — A State Patrol trooper pulled a semi driver to safety after a tire on the semi exploded, the patrol said.

The agency’s Southeast Region office said inspector David Torres was flagged down by a motorist who told him that a semi traveling on Wisconsin 50 was on fire.

Torres pulled the semi over and the driver, who had been looking for a safe place to stop, got out of the truck’s cab with a fire extinguisher, the patrol said.

It said that, as the driver approached a tire that was smoking under the semi, the tire blew up and the force of the explosion sent the driver onto the pavement in a traffic lane.

Torres grabbed the driver and the two rolled under the semi to escape oncoming traffic Friday afternoon, the patrol said.

The driver received minor injuries but Torres was not hurt, the regional office said in a news release.

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25(2)+2 · **^ Top** #2 05.05.2007

It's always good to hear or read about heroic acts by anyone.

An exploding tire generates enough force to raise a lightweight, empty trailer off the road or throw a passing car into the median or ditch. A safety cage used when inflating a tire prevents the tire from impacting you should it explode but the compressed air will still be very powerful and possibly lethal to anyone too near it.

There is another thing here, a fire extinguisher won't put out a tire fire, take it from someone that has been there and done that, the second one didn't help, either. Maybe one of those very large CO2 ones would do it, I don't know about that, but I've never seen one of those in a truck. It took five minutes with a fire truck and water to cool things down enough so the tire didn't re-ignite.

AJ

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