UPDATE (4:15 p.m.): Police confirmed that a two-year-old girl died in the truck fire. Two adults, a mother and father, were outside the vehicle when the fire started and were able to rescue a 10-month-old and 4-year-old from the truck.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation and police say it appears to be accidental. The parents and two children were taken to a local hospital.
Drivers are asked to avoid the residential area near Irving Street and Manville Street on the Boise Bench while police and fire officials investigate what caused a pickup truck to go up in flames late Thursday morning, sending multiple victims to the hospital with injuries.
“I noticed the flames, I heard the screams so I ran outside but by the time it was totally engulfed in flames,” says Myron Boland.
Myron Boland lives on Edgemont Street. on the Boise Bench and heard a loud pop Thursday morning.
When he went to check it out, he saw a pickup truck, covered in flames.
KIVI Jessica Davis