A truck driver loses everything.  Traffic backed up as troopers closed I-70 this morning for a semi truck fire.  The truck was traveling East on I-70 and caught on fire just East of Kingdom City at 10:30. 

The fire started after the truck's brakes locked up.  The driver, Donald Bimm, heard his tire pop.  When Bimm got out of the vehicle, he noticed his tire was on fire.  Bimm explained, "Normally when you lose a steering tire like that the first thing the truck wants to do is flip over.  Well I kept it up and we got her stopped and when I jumped out and seen the flames, I knew I had lost her."  The fire then engulfed the entire cab.  The highway patrol joined Bimm

The highway patrol joined Bimm, using four fire extinguishers to try and control the fire.  "We ended up going back a quater mile down the road and I just sat there and I just watched my baby burn.  I seen flames flying up anywhere from 22-30 foot high and all everything I owned was in that truck.", said Bimm. 

As the driver looked on, it took workers two hours to clean up his belongings. The fire backed up traffic for miles on I-70. The truck was traveling from Colorado to North Carolina carrying barley.  Eastbound drivers on I-70 this morning faced a big backup as a truck burned to the ground. 

As KOMU 8's Katie Steiner reports, the driver escaped with his life, but not much else.  The smoking remains of a tractor-trailer mark the spot where Donald Bimm lost his livelihood.  Bimm says that when it was all over, only his bible survived the flames.  The truck driver came away with out a scratch.