Emergency Response

FedEx truck on fire slows down traffic on I-435 in Overland Park

Mike Frizzell -

Overland Park firefighters worked for more than two hours to extinguish a tractor-trailer fire on Interstate 435 near Quivira Road on Tuesday evening. Firefighters were called to the westbound lanes of I-435 at 5:14 p.m. and arrived to find smoke from the back of a FedEx Ground tractor-trailer. Crews unloaded much...

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