Courtesy of Las Vegas Fire and Rescue
Firefighters work to extinguish a semitrailer blaze that started on Interstate 15, Wednesday, July 22, 2015.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 | 7:50 p.m.
The truck stopped about 4:40 p.m. on I-15 southbound before Charleston Boulevard after light smoke appeared to be coming from the trailer, fire department spokesman Tim Szymanski said.
The fire department responded and escorted the truck to a vacant lot near Wall Street and Western Avenue so the trailer could be opened at a safer, less populated location, he said.
The department's hazmat team went inside the trailer, and they found a light haze and an apparently wet floor, Szymanski said.
Firefighters who went into the trailer were located a small fire on a pallet and extinguished it, he said.
No injuries were reported in the incident, and the truck didn't suffer any major damage, he said.
The wet floor appeared to be from a leaking battery, though it's unclear exactly how the fire began, he said.
Crews were cleaning up the trailer and putting all contaminated material into hazmat drums, Szymanski said.