Garbage truck fires are never ... So, firefighters unrolled hoses and hooked up to a nearby fire hydrant. They recognized that the truck was CNG-powered, as were many Groot vehicles.

Contra Costa Fire crews responded at 9 a.m. to the garbage truck with CNG —compressed natural gas — on board. Flames from the fire threatened vegetation and homes on the other side of a ...

An Arlington Heights firefighter was injured by an explosion during a fire in a garbage truck powered by compressed natural gas. A violent explosion rocked an Arlington Heights street Friday as ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Two police officers and a firefighter were injured Friday afternoon, when a garbage ... truck was operated by Groot Waste Management and was powered by compressed natural gas ...

Two police officers and one firefighter were injured by an explosion and fire in the Arlington Heights area Friday after a garbage truck crash. The incident occurred about 4 p.m. on the 500 block ...

Laurel Canyon Boulevard. When firefighters arrived, they found the natural gas-powered trash truck engulfed in flames. The fire threatened a nearby residential structure. As a precaution ...

At around 4 p.m. the Arlington Heights Police and Fire departments responded to the area of Derbyshire and Euclid avenues after a garbage truck powered by compressed natural gas partially exploded ...

The article at the time didn't say anything about the cause (we speculated that a lithium-ion battery was the cause of the fire, but didn't know it was a CNG ... truck and not a garbage truck.