Van fire reported on I-40 near mile marker 85

Heard on: Bowie TX Law Dispatch Group Calls

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Jay, also you got a vehicle that looks like maybe flames come out from the hood about the 80.

00:09

85 on the westbound side.

00:11

I'm gonna try to run there and get turned around.

00:14

The caller never really made contact.

00:16

You said the 85 west?

00:18

Yeah, it looked like a little sprinter van.

00:23

Okay, what he said, flames were coming out from underneath the hood.

00:27

It was coming from the headlight area.

00:29

I've never seen that before, but that's where it was coming from.

00:33

Pull up, it's not again.

00:35

Ten four.

00:38

He said eighty-eight, correct?

00:42

Yeah, people over there.

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00:45

you hear any traffic on the eighty-five west?

00:48

I did not.

00:51

There is a truck.

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The sky flames coming out the headlight area.

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I don't know.

00:55

It's a van.

00:56

There is a dark truck that pulled over in front of it.

7/28/2026 06:02 AM

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I-40, Clarksville, AR

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, dispatchers discussed a possible vehicle fire on I-40 westbound near a mile marker in the mid-80s, involving a small Sprinter-style van with flames reportedly coming from the hood or headlight area and a dark truck stopped in front of it.

Van fire reported on I-40 near mile marker 85

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