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Friday, April 26, 2019

I-70 INFERNO - 2019

Photo: West Metro Fire
Photo: Channel 7
Photo: Channel 4

Photo: West Metro Fire
Photo: Colorado State Patrol

Photo: West Metro Fire

On April 24, 2019, West Metro firefighters responded to a fiery and fatal 28-vehicle pileup on I-70 west of Denver.

Four people died in the wreckage as vehicle fuel tanks burst on the interstate highway at Colorado Mills Parkway in Lakewood. "It was crash, crash, crash and explosion, explosion, explosion,"  said John Romero, a police spokesman quoted by the Associated Press.

Several other people were injured, including a firefighter hit by debris.

Police said a speeding flatbed truck hauling lumber plowed into slowing traffic, setting off the catastrophic chain reaction.

Neighboring fire departments provided assistance to West Metro. 
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