{"id":6048,"date":"2025-09-16T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:57:25","slug":"springfield-trucking-company-explosion-fire-it-was-a-lot-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/?p=6048","title":{"rendered":"Springfield trucking company explosion, fire: \u2018It was a lot of fire.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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explosions Friday morning at a Springfield trucking company on West Leffel Lane.<\/p>\n

The fire happened at the\u00a0U.S. Xpress\u00a0trucking facility at 825 W. Leffel Lane, and smoke could be seen for at least a mile around 6 a.m. The first calls came in at 5:13 a.m., according to Matthew Smith, assistant chief for the Springfield Fire Rescue Division.<\/p>\n

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He said initial reports said an explosion, or multiple explosions, occurred in the repair facility for the trucking company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have confirmed there was an explosion inside,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe do not know what caused that explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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No one was inside the section of the building where the fire started, and no injuries were reported, he said.<\/p>\n

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The smoke from an industrial fire at USA Trucking on Leffel Lane parts long enough to reveal a member of the Springfield Fire Division, on top of an aerial truck ladder, spraying water on the fire Friday, June 2, 2023.<\/p>\n
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The fire was contained at 6:45 a.m., but some firefighters stayed on site until about 2 p.m. \u201cmopping up hot spots,\u201d according to a Facebook post from the department.<\/p>\n

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Smith said the fire department used large streams of water, ladder trucks and handlines to defend the rest of the building, extinguishing the fire in about two hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe flames were through the roof on arrival,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI mean, it was a lot of fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Firefighters called a second alarm soon after initial reports and quickly changed to a third alarm, which resulted in more first responders coming in, Smith said.<\/p>\n

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Because the fire started so early, Smith said he ordered first shift to come in early to assist in containing the fire.<\/p>\n

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Up to 2,500 gallons of water a minute flowed to fight the fire, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very good stop,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThis fire could have taken this entire building and burned it to the ground and we stopped it to just one part of the repair facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Springfield Fire Rescue Division firefighters responded, as did Box 27, which provides support for firefighters at scenes.<\/p>\n

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According to a Facebook post from the fire department, firefighters searched the driver\u2019s truck lounge for any napping truck drivers and the space was cleared. The fire was concentrated on the repair shop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

explosions Friday morning at a Springfield trucking company on West Leffel Lane. The fire happened at the\u00a0U.S. Xpress\u00a0trucking facility at 825 W. Leffel Lane, and smoke could be seen for … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addnews.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}