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KISSIMMEE, FL – Multiple tractor-trailers were involved in a crash caused a huge fire shutting down the Florida Turnpike under the Boggy Creek overpass just after midnight on Tuesday morning, January 12, 2009 in Kissimmee, Florida. MyFoxNews, Orlando Florida Sky Cam were first on the scene just minutes after it happened capturing this exclusive video around 12:30 this morning.

Multiple semi-trucks involved in fiery crash in Kissimmee, Florida

You can see the flames – fiery flames – shooting up in the air. The fire looked really intense and we understand that a couple of people were injured. The driver and passenger in that truck that caught on fire were injured in that crash. Although their injuries were not life-threatening, they were both transported to the hospital.

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Troopers were able to speak with the driver to help them determine what happened out here. As you can see the flames that were shooting up from this truck it’s hard to imagine anyone getting out of it.

The cab of the truck was completely destroyed in this fire which Troopers believe was actually started by damage to the refrigeration unit. The unit is used to keep the food cool inside the trailer.

The big rig is a Target semi truck that was carrying yogurt and other things that needed to be kept cold. This morning that entire load has been completely destroyed along with the cab of that truck.

Location of fiery semi-truck crash under the Boggy Creek overpass on the Florida Turnpike

The drivers told Troopers that one tractor-trailer blew a tire. As he was travelling southbound on the Turnpike. He went to get into the shoulder when the other tractor-trailer driving in the same lane of traffic didn’t see the other 18-wheeler and then ran right into the back of it and then the cab of that truck caught on fire.

After that, once those flames erupted, a good samaritan that was passing by says that he jumped in to help.

You can see the charring underneath the Boggy Creek overpass. Troopers are allowing one lane of traffic to head southbound on the Turnpike. Things were going very slow, there. For awhile, traffic going in both directions on the overpass was closed but was reopened later on after the fire was extinguished. The major diversions at this point are no longer existing.

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