Kannarraville, UT :Watery cargo burns, traffic crawls during semitrailer fire on I-15 on Friday, July 3rd 2015

Northbound lanes on Interstate 15 were at a crawl for more than three hours Friday morning after a semitrailer hauling bottled water from Las Vegas to Cedar City caught fire at about milepost 48.The Cedar City and Kanarraville fire departments were the first to respond to the scene after the initial report of the incident came into dispatch at 9:03 a.m. Iron County Sheriff’s Office, Utah Highway Patrol and Utah Department of Transportation all followed suit to help control and direct the mounting traffic that was backing up due to the fire.Both northbound lanes were closed until about 10 a.m. When the fire was finally contained, UHP allowed one lane to open, letting the bumper-to-bumper holiday traffic slowly trickle through.

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Watery cargo burns, traffic crawls during semitrailer fire on I-15