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The charred wreckage of a semi-truck is all that remains after a fire started in the engine compartment.

Christopher D. Trecarcichi, 35, Brook Park, and his passenger fled from the truck before it became engulfed in flames.

Trecarcichi traveled on Ohio 2 at about 5 Monday morning when he smelled diesel fuel.

He pulled off the interstate and into the Wal-Mart parking lot on Milan Road, where he saw a small fire in the engine compartment. Perkins firefighters arrived but the fire destroyed the semi and the trailer.

Trecarcichi told officers he did not have any insurance.

A semi was fully engulfed in flames in the early morning hours in the Walmart parking lot, U.S. 250, Perkins Township. No one was injured.