Garbage truck fire backs up traffic on I-95 through Hardeeville for around 8 hours
A garbage truck fire closed northbound lanes on Interstate 95 for around eight hours on Wednesday night, according to alerts sent by the City of Hardeeville and the South Carolina Department of Transportation.
The City of Hardeeville sent out a news release about the fire about 6:15 p.m. and Google maps showed heavy traffic at the South Carolina and Georgia state line by 6:30 p.m.
Traffic remained heavy into the late-night hours, according to drivers using the Waze traffic app.
The scene of the fire was reported clear around 2 a.m. by the SC DOT’s 511 traffic information system.
No other information was available on the fire.
The fire was the third to delay traffic on that stretch of I-95 within 24 hours.
Ridgeland Fire Department responded to a tractor-trailer on fire near Exit 21 at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to fire department spokesman Henry Criss. He said the fire was put out at 4:40 p.m.
On Tuesday night, a northbound lane was closed for a tractor-trailer fire at the same location, Criss said.
No one was injured in either of the two tractor-trailer fires.
This story was originally published August 29, 2018 at 6:38 PM.