A propane truck burned for hours after colliding with a C-S-X train near Falkville this morning.
Eddie Hicks, director of the Morgan County Emergency Management Agency said no one aboard the train was injured, but emergency workers could not get within 300 feet of the burning truck.
The truck was carrying two-thousand gallons of propane. The train hit the truck at the Wilhite Road Crossing near Falkville, about 20 miles south of Decatur, at eleven-22 a-m The truck was pushed about a thousand feet before rolling and bursting into flames.
Firefighters from nine fire departments sprayed the fire with a water fog to keep it from spreading. The fire went on so long that extra water had to be hauled to the scene.
Rescue workers said the train pulled safely away from the fire.
