SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A tractor-trailer hauling blocks of cheese erupted in flames early Thursday, turning much of its cargo into freeway fondue.

No one was hurt, but boxes containing hundreds of pounds of provolone, cheddar, American and other cheeses clogged the burned truck and littered the side of Interstate 80 north of downtown Sacramento.

“It went pretty quick,” said truck driver Frank Barker, who pulled over when he saw smoke coming from under his truck.

Barker said he tried to put out the flames with a fire extinguisher, but the fire was too big. He gave up and rescued his dog, who was traveling with him from Salt Lake City to the San Francisco Bay area.

Spiders invading bedroom tip off family to fire burning within home

HEMLOCK, Mich. – A woman who hates spiders is crediting them with helping save her from a house fire.

Danielle Vigue, 18, says she awoke early Tuesday to find spiders in her room. When more showed up, she says she went across the hall and got into bed with her 15-year-old sister, Lauren.

“At first there were five, they were all around the light fixture,” Danielle Vigue told The Saginaw News. “I hate spiders, they freak me out.”

A fire apparently was smoldering in the attic of the home.

A few hours later, Vigue’s 48-year-old mother, Debra, and 8-year-old sister, Shelby, smelled smoke, and flames greeted the family when they opened the door to the room Danielle Vigue had earlier left.

“I will never kill another spider again,” she told WNEM-TV in Saginaw.

From Associated Press reports