VIDEO: An inferno raged in the middle of the night at a Statesville rest stop with the drivers asleep inside, and it was all caught on camera. Big rigs were parked just feet from the flames.
Queen City News spoke exclusively with a truck driver who says he went door to door knocking on cab doors to get the drivers away from the fire.
Truck driver Daniel Bittle says no one was moving. “These guys aren’t waking up?” Bittle says to someone on video as the fire rages Thursday morning around 3:20 a.m. at the rest stop off I-77 just north of Statesville. It was the middle of the night, and all of the truckers were sleeping.
“I looked in my mirrors, and I saw an inferno behind me,” said Bittle.
With the fire raging, Bittle knew he had to wake everyone up.
“Hey move your truck man, that thing’s on fire,” Bittle said on video.
Door to door, Bittle kept knocking.