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Premium Content Subscriber only The freight truck driver whose semi trailer carrying more than 24 tonnes of cane mulch caught fire just after midnight Thursday has spoken out. Paul Karlish was fast asleep after a hard day's work when his neighbour ran to the front of his house with garden hoses yelling "your truck's on fire!" "You could see the mulch on passenger side in about the middle of the trailer was all up in flames," Mr Karlish said. "I ran out, unhooked the trailer and pulled the truck forward while my wife and neighbours got garden hoses and I grabbed a fire extinguisher."

Premium Content Subscriber only The freight truck driver whose semi trailer carrying more than 24 tonnes of cane mulch caught fire just after midnight Thursday has spoken out. Paul Karlish was fast asleep after a hard day's work when his neighbour ran to the front of his house with garden hoses yelling "your truck's on fire!" "You could see the mulch on passenger side in about the middle of the trailer was all up in flames," Mr Karlish said. "I ran out, unhooked the trailer and pulled the truck forward while my wife and neighbours got garden hoses and I grabbed a fire extinguisher."

Premium Content Subscriber only Fire crews were tasked to help distinguish a flaming hay bale on the back of a semi trailer after midnight on Thursday. Queensland Fire and Emergency Services were called to Ibis Blvd at Eli Waters at 12.45am. A spokeswoman said as fireys arrived there were “multiple pockets of fire in the hay bale”. They were deployed with breathing apparatus. She said crews had to put the flames out by pulling apart the hay, as it is the most efficient way. Crews were still dampening down hot spots on the road at just past 4 o’clock this morning and left at 4.45am.