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I-44 slow-down as pickup burns at Fidelity, Mo.

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FIDELTIY, Mo. – About 9:30 a.m. Thursday reports of a vehicle fire along I-44 west near 17 mile marker alerted Jasper County E-911.

Carthage Fire Dept, Jasper County Deputies responded. MoDOT Emergency Response and Missouri State Highway Patrol were notified.

The pickup was fully engulfed after a short time and reports that everyone was out safely from the vehicle.

Our Joplin News First friend Tanner Grimes captured photos.

Expect delays as clean up continues just west of the Fidelity cloverleaf with I-44 and US-59.

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Vehicle catches power line over interstate, Liberty Utilities respond to repair

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FIDELITY, Mo. — About 3:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon what was described as a vehicle catching a power line and pulling it down,  disrupted traffic just north of I-44 on I-49.

Just north of the Fidelity cloverleaf, but before the Cedar Road exit.

“Crews are currently responding to an outage impacting the Carthage, MO area where a vehicle caught one of our power lines. We are currently working with Highway Patrol to close a section of highway 49 so that repairs can be made safely. Crews estimate this process could take approximately 45 minutes to one hour.” — Liberty Utilities Central

Mid-America RV, Josh Schmutz sent us a pic of the repairs being done, “Liberty got the line across fast though!”

Traffic returned to normal flow safely just before 4 p.m.

We will update this article with more information as it becomes available from authorities.

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