The Day a Truck Fire Closed 93 South

Good luck finding the right time to make it through Boston on I-93 South without laying on the breaks too much.

Trying to get through after a garbage truck catches ablaze in the O'Neill Tunnel? Fuggedaboutit.

A truck fire in the near Exit 23 closed all lanes of traffic on 93 South for a couple hours Thursday afternoon, sending people out of the cars to dawdle around on Boston's newest temporary parking lot.

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State Police said at approximately 1:37 p.m. that the southbound lanes were closed because of a garbage truck fire in the right lane. All traffic was diverted at Exit 26 toward Storrow Drive.

Police said the two left lanes were open at approximately 3:35 p.m. All the lanes were open before 4.

Smoke was reported to be visible for miles.

Patch will update this story.

Photo courtesy of Tonna via Twitter.