Schluechtern (dpa/lhe) – Burning hay bales on a truck trailer paralyzed traffic on the A66 towards Hanau on Friday. As the police in Offenbach announced, the road was completely blocked in the evening. No one was injured in the fire in Schluechtern (Main-Kinzig district).
The trailer loaded with hay bales caught fire around 3:30 p.m., probably due to a defect in the rear axle. The driver managed to uncouple the trailer from his tractor. However, extinguishing the hay turned out to be complicated because the bales had to be removed and pushed apart one by one, and the fire kept flaring up.