(WVLT/Peg Broadcasting News)
A section of I-40 in Putnam County was shut down Saturday morning after a tractor trailer caught fire. It happened around 9:30am in the eastbound lanes at Exit 273 in Silver Point. WVLT reports that the semi’s cap was on the median and fully engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived to extinguish the flames. No one was injured and the scene was soon cleared.