Interstate 70 eastbound closed briefly Friday morning near Silverthorne due to a vehicle fire on a stretch of highway near the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels.

Colorado Department of Transportation cameras showed what appeared to be a burning vehicle near Mile Marker 210 on the eastbound lane of travel Friday morning. Police, firefighters and medical crews could be seen on scene, with the vehicle appearing to have been largely extinguished by 9 a.m.

Colorado State Patrol Trooper Sherri Mendez said that the fire was called in around 8:30 a.m. as a pickup truck trying to tow a box truck up a hill. At about 8:45, the vehicle was reported as “being fully engulfed,” Mendez said. She could not immediately say whether that meant just the box truck, just the pickup truck, or both.

The eastbound lanes of travel were closed around 8:50 a.m., according to the Colorado State Patrol. The vehicle fire was on the right shoulder, so it was not blocking traffic, but the interstate was closed so that they could put out the fire, Mendez said.

As of 9:15 a.m., the cameras showed traffic flowing on I-70, but the transportation department’s COTrip app showed that the two right lanes closed between Exit 205 to Silverthorne and Exit 216 to Loveland Pass due to the vehicle fire.