A sushi truck caught fire yesterday morning on Bay Bridge, in Interstate 80 leaving cars stranded for hours and three right lanes closed for the rest of the afternoon.

The incident happened at 5:45 a.m, relates California Highway Patrol Sgt. Laura Gate. The truck driver, Sergio Matta was carrying rice, sushi and other food load had to pull over due to a "wobbly tire". He then leaps out of his truck when he realizes that his engine was on fire.

Sergio tells that the fire was surprising and happened so quickly. He suffered no injuries and neither food nor the truck was salvaged.

Like a fireball rising in the middle of the road, the fire on Bay Bridge forced authorities to close down the lanes until 3:00 PM, to which Officer Mike Ferguson, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol recalls, "I've been told it's still a mess up there." Authorities spent hours examining and clearing the wreckage just in time for the afternoon rush hour.

CHP considers this accident as a lucky one, since there would have been a scheduled BART Strike that morning. A Bay Area Rapid Transit strike should have led more commuters to the road, as there would have been no trains functioning at the time and the traffic would have been higher.

The BART strike was avoided for the next full week after Governor Jerry Brown passed an eleventh hour order Sunday night. If the protest pushed through, it would have been the 2nd strike in the past few months. The eleventh hour order that Brown issued stemmed from a law allowing the state's intervention if and when a strike will directly disturb public transportation services as well as risk public health.

 "That would have kind of perfect timing for it," CHP officer Kevin Bartlett says. "Perfect in bizarro world."