Burning Yam Truck Crowds Freeway
October 8, 2010
Most people know that the traffic in LA is already miserable at times. Well the problem became even worse at 2:30 thursday morning.
What happen was a tractor-trailer carrying 50,000 pounds of sweet potatoes caught fire in Glendale. The fire caused Interstate 5 heading south to be closed for almost 8 hours until the yams could be repacked in a different truck.
This was an interesting article to read. It is a bizarre story that you don’t read about everyday, however, I am not entirely sure that this article is newsworthy. It does inform people that live around that area and use that route to get to work in the morning however.
If I were to write this article I would try and include quotes from people that were witnesses to the burning yam truck. I would not want to get quotes from the people because I would have a general idea of their mood.
October 13th, 2010 at 11:40 am
This is newsworthy in California, I suppose, but I don’t see much reason for the SCJ to re-run, except for the humor angle. No one was hurt, so I suppose we can laugh.