Truck fire spills fuel near I-75 southbound marker, Portage OH

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/9/2025 08:35 PM

I-75, Portage, OH 43451

Fire crews responded to a truck fire on I-75 southbound near the 175-mile marker in Wood County, Ohio. The truck had a ruptured saddle tank leaking about 50 gallons of fuel into a roadside ditch. Efforts to contact the Environmental Protection Agency were unsuccessful, so local emergency management was contacted for assistance with the environmental hazard.

Audio|Source: Wood County Fire Grounds

02:50

Transcript:

00:00

Miss 70th century on fire.

00:15

Respond to I-75 southbound near the 175-mile marker for a possible injury crash.

00:21

Time now, 2335, use channel 2.

00:29

on my personal cell phone.

00:31

We have a saddle tank on this truck that's ripped open.

00:34

We cannot get to the leak.

00:36

We have about 50 gallons in a ditch.

00:47

Prior dispatch, 4-10.

00:52

Go ahead.

00:56

There is no answer at the EPA.

00:59

It just rings.

01:00

I will keep trying.

01:05

I'm not entirely certain they're going to be open or not with the government shutdown.

01:13

Okay.

01:20

Medics 74, you're going to have family coming down for the patient.

01:29

Second.

01:35

Medics 74, do you know where her insurance will be for that vehicle you can ask her?

01:42

Stand by. She's speaking with the officers.

01:47

That's clear.

01:53

I just back to the 410.

01:57

Insurance for that vehicle is going to be with me in the back of the rig.

02:01

She has it on a tablet, that's it.

02:05

That's clear.

02:06

Are you able to snap a picture that's in that 410?

02:11

Yeah,

02:15

I'll see what I got to do.

02:20

Fire dispatch before,

02:23

turn.

02:24

Go ahead.

02:27

Do you want local EMA advised?

02:33

Say again, fire dispatch yet backgroundless.

02:37

Do you want the local EMA advised?

02:46

Yeah, go ahead, give them a call and see if they have any suggestions since we can't get hold with the EPA.

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