Japanese Sweet Potato vendor drives his truck to the fire department on fire

https://lemy.lol/post/62839594

Japanese Sweet Potato vendor drives his truck to the fire department on fire - lemy.lol

https://japantoday.com/category/national/japanese-man-drives-truck-that’s-on-fire-directly-to-fire-station-drops-flaming-potatoes [https://japantoday.com/category/national/japanese-man-drives-truck-that%E2%80%99s-on-fire-directly-to-fire-station-drops-flaming-potatoes]

Was I lied to moments before or is this a really tragic story?

Its really a shame. These were all really just sweet potatoes.
Those poor sweet (very) hot potatoes.