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‘Just a lot of well-done corned beef’ after Missouri wreck

EUREKA, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a weekend wreck on a Missouri highway turned into a corned beef roast.

photo courtesy Eureka Fire Protection District

The Eureka Fire Protection District says in a Facebook post that a rig carrying the meat caught fire Saturday on Interstate 44. Fire spokesman Scott Barthelmass said that the rig’s brakes ignited first, then the whole trailer went up in flames. He says that no one was hurt, “just a lot of well-done corned beef.”

Traffic also was snarled for hours in the area about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of St. Louis.

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