Utah truck driver helps prevent second wildfire in Weber Canyon

  • Source: KSL-TV NBC 5
  • Published: 12/13/2017 04:03 AM

Harrisville resident Jerod Call was driving his concrete mixer truck through Weber Canyon in late September when he noticed a disturbance farther down the road. As he drew closer, Call spotted an overturned semitruck and a downed power line that had sparked a rapidly-growing fire. He quickly pulled over and began dousing the fire with the hose line from his truck’s water tank in an attempt to slow the blaze. “I was just hoping I wasn’t going to run out of water. I only have so much water (and) … I wasn’t sure how much I had,” Call said. By the time firefighters arrived, however, Call had nearly quenched the flames. Just a couple weeks earlier, firefighters had spent 11 hours fighting a wildfire that scorched 619 acres in the same canyon.



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