CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - No one was injured but a provincial plow is a write-off after it caught fire Wednesday morning in Charlottetown.
Winston Bryan, Charlottetown’s fire inspector, said firefighters responded to the call at 11:27 a.m. and the plow was in flames when they arrived.
Bryan said the damage was extensive.
“Pretty well a write-off,” he said.
The fire was classified as accidental and confined to the plow’s engine compartment, Bryan said.
Video provided to The Guardian by Leo Doucette of Doucette Brothers Plumbing and Heating, who was passing by the scene, shows the plow stopped on the side of Riverside Drive as flames shoot up from behind its front blade.
Thick, black smoke billows from the front of the plow in the video as motorists drive by.
Bryan said no one was injured in the fire.
