PLACER COUNTY — Crews have fully reopened Interstate 80 in Northern California following a Tesla semi-truck fire near Emigrant Gap .
It started when a big rig went off the road and crashed into the trees around 3 a.m. Monday. This caused major delays for people traveling in both directions.
“So far, we’re doing just fine, we drove to Colfax no problem. Here we are. We’re going to get a sandwich. We don’t know what’s going to happen from here on in,” Richard Bernstein, traveling to Tahoe, said.
Some people were trying to make it to a camping trip.
“We were really looking forward to enjoying the rest of summer. We’re not sure how many times we’re going to be able to come camping with the good weather you know,” Joshua Ice, Vacaville resident, said.
Saul Garcia was coming from Pollock Pines to try and get to a job near Quincy when he got stuck.
“We were supposed to be there at like 5:30, something like that but we got stuck. We’ve been waiting since like 4 in the morning,” Garcia said.