Pahrump fire crews responded to several single-vehicle rollover accidents over the past several days.
Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Services Chief Scott Lewis said the most serious of the crashes occurred Friday morning, May 4.
The accident involved a semi-truck carrying diesel fuel along Highway 127 in southern Inyo County, where a mutual aid response was activated.
The daytime temperature at the time, reached upward of 100 degrees.
The driver, Lewis said, was physically entrapped inside the cab of the semi.
“Once we arrived on location, we found the semi-truck with a fuel trailer that was overturned onto the driver’s side and was positioned on the dirt shoulder,” Lewis said. “The scene size-up and risk assessment found the truck cab severely crushed where we found the driver deeply entrapped within the cab to a point where he could not be observed. We determined that the fuel was diesel fuel where we assumed that the tanks were full.”