WEST ODESSA, TX - The latest twist on transportation havoc takes us to West Odessa, Texas, where a melon truck’s cab caught fire late last week. Luckily, the driver was able to escape before the entire front of the cab was lost.

“As soon as we arrived on scene we found a fully boxed refrigeration unit, and it was totally on fire,” Assistant Chief Andy Gibson said at the scene, according to news source Odessa American. “So the only thing we could do was put it out. We don’t know how it happened, but it’s going to be here for a while.”

The incident caused hours of traffic on Interstate 20, though there were no injuries save for the melons.

The blaze was extinguished by West Texas Volunteer Firefighters about 10 minutes after arrival, but the remains, including the destroyed front of the truck and smoking melons, continued to smolder for about two hours.

Cause is currently unknown, though the driver, Weldon Carter, told the Odessa American that he had a theory as a fellow driver on the road alerted him to a burning spare tire he kept in the back seat while driving down the Interstate, transporting the melons from Yuma, Arizona, to Brooklyn, New York. Carter guessed that the spare tire might have rolled in front of the muffler of a refrigeration unit he kept in the front of the cab, heating it enough to catch fire.

Carter was able to pull over and tried to put the fire out with an extinguisher, but reported that the winds fanned it and the flames spread to quickly, despite assistance from a fellow driver. The other driver yelled for Carter to run from the truck, and the two were able to get away before the refrigeration unit exploded.

“I’m very thankful,” Carter said. “It’s just frustrating. I can’t even describe it. My life was in that truck, and it’s all in ashes. But I’m alive.”

Last reported, the Texas Department of Public Safety were investigating.