Crime & Safety
100 Gallons of Liquid Asphalt Ignites Pickup Truck
The fire was deemed accidental and no one was hurt.
About 100 gallons of liquid asphalt ignited a pickup truck fire last Friday on Spartan Avenue, police said.
Officer Brian Conover, Parsippany-Troy Hills Fire Association and Lake Parsippany Volunteer Fire Co. got to Spartan Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. and when Conover arrived, he saw “the rear portion of a Ford F350 engulfed in flames,” police said.
The driver told Conover that there wasn’t anyone inside, but the “vehicle contained 100 gallons of liquid asphalt and a propane tank,” so additional officers came to block off the area while the firefighters put out the flames, according to a release from Chief Paul Philipps.
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After the fire was extinguished, Parsippany Fire District 5 HazMat came to remove remaining asphalt and the fire deemed an accident and not suspicious, according to the release.
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