An electrical issue is believed to be the cause of an intense blaze early Friday morning which reduced a late-model International truck to an almost-unrecognizable pile of metal.
The fire was reported about 1:20 a.m. at The Pines RV park about four miles southeast of Lamesa, just off of FM 2052.
Ronnie Ray, a retired Lamesa firefighter who owns the RV park, said he was awakened by an explosion and discovered the truck in flames.
The truck, with a tanker-trailer attached, was parked a short distance north of the recreational vehicles beneath the pine trees that give the facility its name.
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