Evacuations were almost called in north Sacramento after a railcar caught fire on Monday morning in a mostly industrial part of the city, officials said. Crews were dispatched around 2:08 a.m. to the 3900 block of Roseville Road underneath the Highway 80 overpass near Del Paso Park.A railcar caught fire with the potential to spread to two other railcars, one tank containing ethanol and another containing diesel, both explosive materials. A three-alarm fire was called for additional units to help, the Sacramento Fire Department said. The fire extended into some grass, six vehicles in a tow yard and a trailer containing lead-acid batteries. Power lines were damaged and people lost power, the fire department said.The SMUD outage map showed 1,859 customers lost power in the area around 2:52 a.m. due to damaged equipment. Power had been restored to all but 31 customers as of 5:20 a.m. Roseville Road is shut down between Marconi Avenue and Longview Drive. I-80 was not closed as the fire was contained. It was unclear what caused the fire or where it originated. No injuries have been reported at this time. Sacramento Valley Railroad, under Patriot Rail, operates the railcar that caught fire. Patriot Rail told KCRA3 that the railcar that caught fire was carrying telephone poles and the fire didn’t spread to any other railcars. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel
Evacuations were almost called in north Sacramento after a railcar caught fire on Monday morning in a mostly industrial part of the city, officials said.
Crews were dispatched around 2:08 a.m. to the 3900 block of Roseville Road underneath the Highway 80 overpass near Del Paso Park.
A railcar caught fire with the potential to spread to two other railcars, one tank containing ethanol and another containing diesel, both explosive materials. A three-alarm fire was called for additional units to help, the Sacramento Fire Department said.
The fire extended into some grass, six vehicles in a tow yard and a trailer containing lead-acid batteries. Power lines were damaged and people lost power, the fire department said.
The SMUD outage map showed 1,859 customers lost power in the area around 2:52 a.m. due to damaged equipment. Power had been restored to all but 31 customers as of 5:20 a.m.
Roseville Road is shut down between Marconi Avenue and Longview Drive. I-80 was not closed as the fire was contained. It was unclear what caused the fire or where it originated. No injuries have been reported at this time.
Sacramento Valley Railroad, under Patriot Rail, operates the railcar that caught fire. Patriot Rail told KCRA3 that the railcar that caught fire was carrying telephone poles and the fire didn’t spread to any other railcars.
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