Truck carrying liquid oxygen catches fire on highway

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Truck carrying liquid oxygen catches fire on highway

August 14, 2014
By The Chronicle Herald

Aug. 14, 2014, Oxford, N.S. - The east-bound lanes of Highway 104 near Oxford were closed Thursday morning after a tanker truck hauling liquid oxygen caught fire. The Chronicle Herald reports.

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