WSP Trooper Patrol Car Catches Fire on I-90 - NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |

THORP, Wash. (AP) - The Washington State Patrol says a fire in the trunk of a State Patrol car prompted a two-hour closure of both directions of Interstate 90 west of Ellensburg. Trooper Darren Wright tells the Yakima Herald-Republic that no one was injured in the Thursday afternoon fire. Wright says there was concern that ammunition stored in the trunk might be a hazard.