When firefighters arrived on scene, they asked the driver to dump his load in the street, which would reduce the risk of anything on the truck itself—gasoline, CNG, etc.—catching fire.

A CNG-powered truck carrying biscuits caught fire while passing over a bridge near Gurdwara Nanaksar on Ferozepur Road in ...

Two police officers and a firefighter who were responding to the fire were injured. The garbage truck involved operated on natural gas, rather than diesel. The compressed natural gas—or CNG ...

A garbage truck in Indianapolis, IN, running on natural gas exploded on Tuesday when a fire caused the carbon fiber tanks holding the fuel to burst. The cylinders reportedly shot up to a quarter ...

“Once the load is off the truck and there’s no fire in the truck, the (natural gas) doesn’t come into play any longer.” New fire department protocols call for firefighters to keep a 300 ...

The article at the time didn't say anything about the cause (we speculated that a lithium-ion battery was the cause of the fire, but didn't know it was a CNG truck). I visited them over Christmas ...