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WASHINGTON CITY — Crews from the Washington City Fire Department were dispatched to a report of a brush fire on Friday afternoon.
When they arrived, they found a trailer attached to a truck engulfed in flames, according to Public Information Officer Captain Julio Reyes.
Emergency crews were dispatched to the scene near the intersection of 2135 East and Washington Dam Road at approximately 2:45 p.m. to the report of a fire with an injury.
Reyes said a male teenager with a mobile pressure washing business was at a job on private property to wash a dump truck. When he went to fuel the washer in the back of an enclosed utility trailer, it ignited.
Crews quickly extinguished the fire and the youth was treated on scene and released by Gold Cross Ambulance medical personnel.
“He had some singed hair but was otherwise fine,” Reyes told St. George News. “The trailer was completely ruined and the bed of the truck it was attached to has some damage. The paint on the dump truck he was going to pressure wash was also damaged a little.”
The cause of the fire was still under investigation, said Reyes, who relayed reports to St. George News from crews that had been on the scene.
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