BEAVERCREEK — A truck caught fire while at a gas pump at a Kroger gas station on Friday morning.
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The fire was reported around 8:12 a.m. at the Kroger on Dayton Xenia Road in Beavercreek, according to dispatchers.
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Jason Lambert was near the gas station when the truck burst into flames.
“(The driver) was running towards the attendant’s thing screaming, ‘Fire, Fire!’ and all that,” Lambert said.
Witnesses said it looked like the driver tried to find someone at the gas station kiosk to warn.
Video captured by Lambert and shown on News Center 7 at 6:00 showed the gas tank blowing. Another angle captured by another iWitness7, Amber Bratz, showed the gas pump on fire as well.
“You could definitely feel the pressure wave from it,” Lambert explained. “It wasn’t anything big, but you could feel it. The heat from the fire was pretty intense.”
Lambert told News Center 7 that he didn’t think the driver found anyone at the gas station’s kiosk and believes he ran into the store to get help.
Video also showed the fire triggering the gas station’s fire suppression system, creating a cloud of thick dust everywhere. It eventually suffocated the flames and drifted over everything in the area.
“I mean it pretty much blotted out the sky,” Lambert said. “I mean, there for a few minutes you couldn’t see anything around you.”
News Center 7 reached out to Kroger to ask them about the fire and how long the gas station might be closed. We have not received a response at the time of this report.
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