The Daily Leader of Brookhaven reports that the truck caught fire Thursday morning while headed southbound on Interstate 55 near Summit.
SUMMIT, Miss. (AP) — State officials are cleaning up after a truck carrying a chlorine-based chemical burned in southwest Mississippi.
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Brandon Fortenberry says a motorist warned the driver there was a fire under one of two trailers.
The driver pulled off at the Lake Dixie Springs exit, but was unable to put the blaze out with a fire extinguisher.
A trailer of calcium hypochlorite, often used to chlorinate swimming pools, burned. Firefighters put out the fire before it claimed a second trailer.
A hazardous materials team from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is cleaning up. The interstate remains open, but the exit is closed until cleanup is complete.