RIGHT NOW. A TRACTOR TRAILER CARRYING BATTERIES BURSTS INTO FLAMES. SKY FOUR OVER THE SCENE. IM TANIQUA PENNIX IN SPARTANBURG WITH WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT WHAT MAY HAVE CAUSED THIS FIRE. SKIES CLEAR OUT A BIT AS WE GO INTO THE WEEKEND. COMING UP ON MAP OUT WHERE TEMPERATURES GO AFTER THIS WEEKS RAIN OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. TRAIN DERAILMENT CENTER STARR-IVA. VERY MINIMAL, LESS THAN TEN. IM REY LLERENA IN ANDERSON COUNTY. THE LATEST ON THE DERAILMENT AFTER SEVERAL CARS TOPPLED OVER NEAR BELTON. WELL, WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. OUT OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY. CREWS ARE INVESTIGATING AFTER A TRACTOR TRAILER CONTAINING BATTERIES CAUGHT FIRE. THIS WAS THE SCENE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG BROADCAST DRIVE IN SPARTANBURG. OUR TANIQUA PENNIX HAS BEEN ON SCENE. SHE JOINS US LIVE NOW WITH THE VERY LATEST TANIQUA. WELL, GOOD EVENING. NIGEL. CAROL, THE SCENE HERE AT THE GFL JB TRANSFER STATION IS CLEAR NOW, BUT THE DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF TELLS ME THEY WERE ABLE TO GET THIS FIRE UNDER CONTROL PRETTY QUICKLY. BUT IT WAS AN INTENSE SCENE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON, FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED ABOUT A TRUCK THAT BURST INTO FLAMES FRIDAY AFTERNOON, POSSIBLY CARRYING CHEMICALS AND BATTERIES AT THE GFL TRASH TRANSFER STATION. THEY WERE ABLE TO FIND SOME BATTERIES. UM, STILL UNDETERMINED AS TO WHAT TYPE OF BATTERY THOSE ARE THAT WERE INVOLVED. THEY DO CARRY TRASH, OBVIOUSLY, AND DEAL WITH UNKNOWNS. UH, AT THIS FACILITY. SO ITS A MYRIAD OF EVERYTHING THAT ANYBODY COULD POSSIBLY THROW AWAY. DEPUTY CHIEF NICHOLAS RAY SAYS CREWS GOT CONTROL OF THE FIRE CLEANUP CONTRACTORS WERE ABLE TO EMPTY OUT THE TRAILER, AND NO ONE WAS INJURED. PEOPLE JUST THROW AWAY THINGS THEY PROBABLY SHOULDNT. AND WHEN THEY GET COMPACTED OR OVERHEATED, THEY CAN CAUSE SPONTANEOUS FIRES FROM TIME TO TIME. BUT IN THIS CASE, WERE VERY LUCKY. TODAY, THE NORTH SPARTANBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT JUST RECEIVED NEW ELECTRICAL VEHICLE, FIRE BLANKETS AND ELECTRICAL VEHICLE NOZZLES. BUT THE DEPUTY CHIEF SAYS TODAYS FIRE WAS PUT OUT THE OLD FASHIONED WAY. WITH THIS NOT BEING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE. UM, THAT EQUIPMENT WOULDNT HAVE COME INTO PLAY HERE. WE JUST USED OUR TRADITIONAL EXTINGUISHING METHODS OF HOSES AND WATER AND A LOT OF MANPOWER ON A VERY HOT DAY. THIS FIRE IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. REPORTING LIVE IN SPARTANBURG, TANIQUA PENNIX WYFF NEWS FOUR TANIQUA. THANK YOU. ALSO BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT IN GREENVILLE COUNTY, ONE PERSON IS DEAD AFTER A CRASH. THE CORONERS OFFICE SAYS IT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON ON REEDY FORK ROAD NEAR OLD HUNDRED ROAD IN PELZER. WERE TOLD ONE PERSON DIED AT THE SCENE. NO OTHER DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED. MORE BREAKING NEWS. SKY4 FLEW OVER A CRASH INVOLVING A HIGHWAY PATROL VEHICLE. THIS WAS THE SCENE NEAR WHITE HORSE ROAD AT FURMANS GOLF COURSE. TROOPERS SAY THE GREENVILLE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE IS NOW INVESTIGATING THIS CRASH. THE TROOPER INVOLVED WAS WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND IS EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. DEPUTIES HAVE NOT YET SAID WHAT LED UP TO THE CRASH. LETS TURN TO THE FORECAST NOW. IT IS A LIVE SUPER DOPPLER FOUR IMPACT DAY. A LIVE LOOK NOW FROM LAWRENCE TO GREENVILLE CHIEF METEOROLOGIST CHRIS JUSTICE JOINS US NOW. AND CHRIS, IS IT CLEARING UP FOR THE WEEKEND? IT IS. WE GOT ONE MORE PROBABLY SIX HOURS OF SOME STORMS ACROSS THE AREA. AND THIS IS WHAT ITS LOOK LIKE MOST DAYS THIS WEEK AS WEVE HAD STORMS AROUND THE AREA. THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW DAYS WHERE ITS KIND OF SKIRTED MY YARD. I COULD SEE IT. I COULD HEAR IT, BUT DIDNT REALLY REACH MY YARD. THATS THE CASE FOR MANY OF YOU TODAY. LOOK AT THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS FROM TOWN TO TOWN ACROSS ANDERSON GREENWOOD. SOME OF THESE ARE PUTTING DOWN SOME REALLY HEAVY RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME ACROSS IOWA. STAR PRINCETON. THEN YOU GET UP INTO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, WHERE THINGS ARE MAINLY DRY. NOW MOVING FORWARD HERE, ITS GOING TO BE A DRIER WEEKEND FOR US. ITS 86 RIGHT NOW IN GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG, 80 IN ASHEVILLE. WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THE HUMIDITY FEELS MORE LIKE 90 DEGREES. A FANTASTIC WEEKEND ON THE WAY. LETS KICK START IT HERE FOR YOU OVER THE NEXT 12 HOURS. I CANT RULE OUT A SPOTTY SHOWER OR STORM, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, WERE BEGINNING TO DRY THINGS BACK OUT AFTER A VERY WET WEEK. IN FACT, ASHEVILLE HAD OVER NINE INCHES OF RAIN GREENVILLE A COUPLE OF INCHES, 2 TO 3 DEPENDING ON DOWNTOWN VERSUS GSP. NOW COMING UP, ILL MAP OUT THE WEEKEND FOR YOU HOUR BY HOUR, AND SHOW YOU WHEN RAIN DOES TRY TO RETURN BACK TO THE AREA. CHRIS, THANK YOU. THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 40 TRAIN DERAILMENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, INCLUDING ONE YESTERDAY IN ANDERSON COUNTY. IT HAPPENED OFF BELTON-HONEA PATH HIGHWAY, BUT HOW COMMON ARE THESE TYPES OF ACCIDENTS AND WHERE DO THEY HAPPEN? OUR REY LLERENA JOINS US LIVE IN ANDERSON COUNTY WITH MORE ON THIS REA. THOSE CARS THAT TOPPLED OVER WERE UPRIGHTED EARLY THIS MORNING AND THROUGHOUT THE DAY WE HAVE SEEN CREWS TRYING TO FIX AND REPLACE THE TRACK WHERE THESE CARS DERAILED. REPAIRS ARE ONGOING AFTER A DERAILMENT IN ANDERSON COUNTY, SKY4, HOVERING OVER FIVE RAIL CARS THAT DERAILED THURSDAY MORNING. RAILROAD OFFICIALS SAY THREE CARS WERE LOADED WITH ETHANOL, TWO OF WHICH TOPPLED OVER AND TWO OTHERS WERE LOADED WITH WOOD PULP. THEY WILL BEGIN THE OFFLOADING PROCESS OF THE PRODUCT THAT WAS CONTAINED IN THEM TODAY, THERES NO CONCERN FOR ANY SPILL OR LEAK. IN A STATEMENT, GREENVILLE AND WESTERN CEO STEPHEN HAWKINS SAYS IN PART, QUOTE, THE INCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION AND WE ARE WORKING WITH BOTH THE FRA AND S.C. ORS TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE AND MEET ALL MANDATORY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS, AS WELL AS OVERSEEING TRACK REPAIRS. THE FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION DATA SHOWS. GREENVILLE AND WESTERN HAS NOT HAD A DERAILMENT IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, OFFICIALS SAY TRAINS IN THE COUNTY TRAVEL AT A SLOW PACE. THEY OPERATE RELATIVELY UNDER 20 MILES AN HOUR, USUALLY SOMEWHERE AROUND THE FIVE MILE AN HOUR MARK, DATA SHOWS. ANDERSON COUNTY HAS NOT SEEN A DERAILMENT SINCE 2021, WHEN THERE WERE TWO AND THERE WERE FIVE DERAILMENTS IN THE UPSTATE IN 2022. IN GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES, MOST DERAILMENTS HAPPEN IN A TRAIN YARD, SO THERES NOT THAT MANY IN A GIVEN YEAR THAT ARE REALLY BIG EVENTS THAT DISRUPT THINGS FOR A COMMUNITY. BUT OFFICIALS SAY THEYRE PREPARED FOR WHAT CAN HAPPEN. YOU GET TO GO OUT TO ACTUAL RAIL CAR, LEARN THE DIFFERENT ATTACHMENTS AND SUCH FOR OFFLOADING THIS PRODUCT OR ANY KIND OF POTENTIAL FAIL POINTS. THEY MAY HAVE. SO FROM WHERE YOURE STANDING, RIGHT NOW, WHAT KIND OF TRACK REPAIR HAVE CREWS DONE SO FAR. WELL, EARLIER IN THE DAY, CAROL, WE SAW CREWS USING VERY HEAVY MACHINERY TO LIFT UP AND FIX AND DIG UP RAILS ON THE FAR SIDE OF THIS LINE, RIGHT BEHIND ME. AND AGAIN, THE CAUSE OF THIS DERAILMENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. LIVE IN ANDERSON COUNTY, REY LLERENA WYFF NEWS FOUR. THANK YOU. RAY. AN UPSTATE PHARMACIST HAS BEEN SENTENCED FOR UNLAWFULLY COMPOUNDING RADIOACTIVE DRUGS. THATS ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. OFFICIALS SAY 73 YEAR OLD RICHARD SHERIFF OF EASLEY PLEADED GUILTY TO ADULTERATION OF A DRUG. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, SHERIFF OWNED A PHARMACY THAT PROVIDES NUCLEAR AND RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS TO MEDICAL FACILITIES IN THE GREENVILLE AREA. THEY SAY HE WOULD SPLIT AN ACTIVE INGREDIENT IN THE DRUGS. HE WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS PROBATION. RIGHT NOW, A PERSON IS IN CUSTODY AFTER A MISSING NINE YEAR OLD FROM DURHAM NORTH CAROLINA, WAS FOUND SAFE. AN AMBER ALERT WAS ISSUED FOR THE BOY LAST NIGHT. POLICE SAID. HE WAS LAST SEEN WITH 43 YEAR-OLD MARIAH KING. POLICE SAY THE BOY HAS BEEN LOCATED AND IS SAFE. KING WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. BIG NAMES IN COUNTRY ARE IN ANDERSON TONIGHT FOR THE ROCK. THE COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL. ITS BEING HELD AT THE SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER. SKY4 VIDEO NOW OF CREWS EARLIER THIS WEEK, SETTING UP THE VENUE. OFFICIALS SAY 30,000 PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO VISIT THE COUNTY BECAUSE OF THIS FESTIVAL, BUT PEOPLE ARE ALREADY PARKING THEIR RVS DAYS AHEAD OF THE MUSIC STARTING COUNTY OFFICIALS SAY THE FESTIVAL IS EXPECTED TO HAVE AN ECONOMIC IMPACT OF. ABOUT $27 MILLION. WELCOME TO FLUOR FIELD, WHERE WE HAVE A SOLD OUT CROWD ON OUR HANDS, READY TO SHOWCASE WHAT BANANA BALL IS ALL ABOUT. THE FIREFIGHTERS AND THE PARTY ANIMALS GETTING READY TO TAKE OFF RIGHT HERE A