VIDEO: Pickup truck catches fire during morning commute

By CityNews Halifax Staff

Posted Nov 7, 2018 03:07:00 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Emergency crews were called to Robie St. just south of Young Wednesday after flames erupted from a pickup truck just before 7:30 a.m.

Traffic was briefly affected while firefighters extinguished the blaze.

Robie St. fully reopened by 8 a.m.

 

 

 

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