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Truck hauling load of curly fries catches fire on Maine highway
UPI ^ | February 26, 2025 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 02/28/2025 8:59:40 AM PST by Red Badger

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- No one was injured, but many potatoes were lost, when a tractor-trailer hauling a load of curly fries caught fire on a Maine highway.

The York Fire Department responded alongside Kittery Fire crews when more than 30 calls came in to 911 reporting a truck on fire on southbound Interstate 95.

"It was quickly determined that the cargo was frozen curly french fries and not a hazardous material," the York Fire Department said on social media.

The firefighters used about 6,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames, but the tractor-trailer and its spud snack cargo "were a total loss," firefighters wrote.

There were no injuries resulting from the fire.


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1 posted on 02/28/2025 8:59:40 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

and there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic Connecticut


2 posted on 02/28/2025 9:01:23 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Red Badger

I clicked on this for the jokes. Be back later see if there are some good ones.


3 posted on 02/28/2025 9:01:49 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger

so then...BBQ fries? too bad a beer truck wasn’t involved. could have been a party.


4 posted on 02/28/2025 9:02:05 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Red Badger

At least it wasn’t eggs.


5 posted on 02/28/2025 9:03:00 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Red Badger

“The Fries are done”


6 posted on 02/28/2025 9:05:00 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The humanity!


7 posted on 02/28/2025 9:05:01 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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8 posted on 02/28/2025 9:05:01 AM PST by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: Red Badger

I once made a call on a train car on fire out in the rural part of our territory. It was loaded to the gills with liquor of all sorts. The Train company man came over and told us it was all trash so help your self. We had the entire inside of the engine loaded down to the gills. Most of it was completely untouched by the fire. Fun times.


9 posted on 02/28/2025 9:05:06 AM PST by DainBramage
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Bummer.

10 posted on 02/28/2025 9:06:15 AM PST by Liz ( leave plain)
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To: Red Badger

So now they are crisps...


11 posted on 02/28/2025 9:09:31 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Red Badger

Who’s got ketchup?


12 posted on 02/28/2025 9:09:51 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: DainBramage

Yes, my brother-in-law use dto be a delivery man for a liquor company. A case cannot be delivered with a damaged bottle.................


13 posted on 02/28/2025 9:10:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Dumb question here..

How can frozen potatoes burn?


14 posted on 02/28/2025 9:11:06 AM PST by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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15 posted on 02/28/2025 9:13:13 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Texas resident

uhh...to answer dumb question, once exposed to FIRE, frozen stuff isn’t frozen anymore. more “science of the curly fry” should be next on the reading list. in the meantime, in having a beer and dreaming about what could have been.


16 posted on 02/28/2025 9:17:27 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Red Badger
It would great if a truck load of Velveeta Cheese caught fire in the vicinity! With no one being injured of course.
17 posted on 02/28/2025 9:18:23 AM PST by 4yearlurker ('Roll his bones over the stones he just a pauper nobody knows.")
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To: Red Badger

Hey!

“Fries” is an anagram of “Fires” OMG! How cool is that!?! 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️🤸🤸‍♂️🤸🤸‍♂️🤸🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️🤸🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️


18 posted on 02/28/2025 9:22:25 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Red Badger

Never had French fried cooked in diesel, but I’m willing to try them.


19 posted on 02/28/2025 9:26:24 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

“Potato prices rise as inventory falls (off truck and burns)...”


20 posted on 02/28/2025 9:30:00 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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