GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — A burning big-rig loaded with yams has caused a hot potato of a traffic problem on a Los Angeles-area freeway.
California Highway Patrol Officer Ed Jacobs says a tractor-trailer hauling 50,000 pounds of the sweet potatoes caught fire on the southbound Interstate 5 in Glendale at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
No injuries were reported, but two of the four southbound lanes were closed for about 712 hours, slowing traffic until the yams could be loaded into another truck. The lanes reopened shortly after 10 a.m.
