The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office

Trailer carrying fireworks ignites in spectacular display on Tennessee highway

Cellphone video captured a spectacular, pre-Fourth of July display of fireworks on a Tennessee highway Saturday evening as a trailer carrying the incendiary haul erupted, authorities said. First responders racing to a reported vehicle fire on northbound Interstate 75 in the community of Ooltewah found a stopped work truck hauling a box trailer that was ablaze and popping with pyrotechnics, fire officials said. “The trailer was full of fireworks, all of which became involved in the fire and...