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Two 3-car wrecks, vehicle fire close SR 18 in Auburn

Two separate three-car collisions and a vehicle fire closed eastbound state Route 18 in two Auburn locations Tuesday night, according to the Washington State Patrol.

One of the three-car collisions was a rollover in which Valley Regional Fire Authority crews worked to extricate a person from the rolled vehicle, Trooper Kyle Yarbrough said.

It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured in the crashes.

The collisions, which happened about 8:35 p.m., were west of the SR 18 exit for C Street.

Trooper Rick Johnson tweeted just after 10 p.m. that the wrecks had been cleared from the roadway, but a vehicle fire near state Route 167 was blocking traffic.

South King Fire reported on Twitter at about 10:15 p.m. that the fire had been put out and one lane was cleared. No one was injured in the fire, the agency tweeted.

This story was originally published January 3, 2017 at 9:37 PM with the headline "Two 3-car wrecks, vehicle fire close SR 18 in Auburn."

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