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Truck fire Saturday 5th haul-truck incident in 2 weeks

According to a municipal enforcement officer on the scene, Saturday's incident involved a transport truck heading to the diamond mines.

No injuries reported, according to Department of Transportation

A municipal enforcement officer directs traffic on the Ingraham Highway at a roadblock set up near Vee Lake. A tractor trailer has caught fire near the Yellowknife River. (Alyssa Mosher/CBC)

A transport truck that caughtfire on a highway near Yellowknife marks the fifth incident involving haul trucks on the roads around the city.

CBC News arrived on the scene on the Ingraham Trail Saturday around 2:30 p.m. MT when a City of Yellowknife municipal enforcement officer was blocking traffic near Vee Lake.

He said a transport truck heading to the diamondmines was on fire. He wasn't sure what caused the fire or what exactly the truck was hauling.

It ended up taking less than an hour for the Department of Transportation to reopen the road, and it says no injuries were reported.

This isthe fifth incident in the past two weeksinvolving ahaul truck near Yellowknife and the third involving fire.

Municipal enforcement officers have blocked off the Ingraham Trail after a truck caught fire near Vee Lake. (Alyssa Mosher/CBC)

with files from Alyssa Mosher