MORGAN COUNTY, Utah — A semi-truck rolled over in Weber Canyon on Tuesday, and a potassium-based fertilizer spilled on the roadway. It's one of 23 so far that have already happened in front of Fire Chief Brendel's home.

"It’s pretty crazy that 23 [since 2020] of these things happened about a mile and a half from my house,” said Chief Brendel. “That’s an extraordinary amount of rolled-over semis.”

The curve is westbound I-84 at mile post 90, in Weber Canyon.

"We’ve been very fortunate – it’s been cute, it’s been funny, because on some occasions it’s beer, hay, soda pop,” explained Brendel. “But one of these days it’s going to be much worse.”

There are signs to remind truck drivers to slow down through the canyon, but Chief Brendel is hoping the Utah Department of Transportation, which m

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