Nobody was hurt Monday morning when a truck caught fire in the 200 East Area of the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state, according to a notice posted on the website for the federal property.
The fire occurred under the hood of the truck loaded with an empty container from the Site’s Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility. The truck caught fire near the Effluent Treatment Facility. The Hanford Fire Department quickly put out the fire in the engine compartment of the truck and the driver was not hurt.
The Tri-City Herald newspaper reported the story Monday
The empty container, used to transport non-radioactive debris such as construction material, was located in the rear of the truck and was undamaged by the fire.
The DOE declined to say what entity at Hanford employs the driver of the truck.
