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Flaming hot snacks: Trailer toting 40K pounds of potato chips catches fire in Ocala

Have any puns I can use that aren’t stale?

OCALA, Fla. – A trailer filled with 40,000 pounds of potato chips caught fire in Ocala on Thursday.

Ocala Fire Rescue responded after receiving reports of a vehicle fire off Silver Springs Boulevard.

Engines 3 and 4, Rescue 3, Tower 1, and Battalion 11, arrived to find an unlikely scenario unfolding: a detached trailer filled with approximately 40,000 pounds of potato chips burning.

Ocala Fire Rescue

The trailer did not cause damage to the truck or nearby structures, the department said on social media.

Using a high-capacity jet stream -- crews extinguished the fire.

We are sure the chip company is extra salty about this inventory loss.

No injuries were reported.

Ocala Fire Rescue

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