AUGUSTAVILLE - A trailer full of hay and the pickup that was hauling it were destroyed when an axle broke and the resulting sparks caught the hay on fire.
The incident occurred about 3:30 p.m. Monday on Route 890 between here and Wolfe's Crossroads in Rockefeller Township.
The truck was being operated by Jay Mahlon Faus, 1508 Boyer Hill Road, Sunbury. He had picked up 230 bales of hay at a farm about one-half mile away.
Faus escaped injury.
Stonington, Upper Augusta and Sunbury fire Department firefighters responded. The road was closed in the area while the fire was extinguished and the vehicles and burned hay removed.