Dump Truck Fire Off J W Hollington Road Extinguished in Three Minutes

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Dump Truck Fire Off J W Hollington Road Extinguished in Three Minutes

A dump truck driver’s quick reaction — and a Walton County Fire Rescue response measured in single minutes — kept a vehicle fire off J W Hollington Road in Freeport from becoming anything worse Monday morning.

At 7:41 a.m., Walton County Fire Rescue responded to the dump truck fire off J W Hollington Road. The driver told crews they smelled smoke and immediately got out of the truck, and within minutes the dump truck was fully engulfed in flames.

WCFR crews arrived on scene just one minute after being dispatched and went straight to work, extinguishing the fire in three minutes. The driver did not sustain any injuries.

Firefighters direct a hose stream at a burning dump truck as heavy smoke billows over a rural Freeport road

The fire drew a response from the department’s District 5 crews, whose fast work kept the morning incident on a Freeport back road to a burned truck rather than an injury call.

Originally reported by Walton County Fire Rescue on X. Images: Walton County Fire Rescue.