Emergency crews have responded to two vehicles that became engulfed in flames in separate incidents on major Hunter roads within five minutes of each other on Thursday afternoon.
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Firefighters from East Maitland and Tarro were called to the New England Highway at Tarro about 12.45pm, where they found a motorhome well alight.
The vehicle was destroyed by the fire, which firefighters stopped from spreading.
A woman and a dog managed to escape the blaze uninjured, a firefighter said.
The Tarro fire broke out only about five minutes before a b-double truck burst into flames in a southbound lane of the M1 Pacific Motorway at Morisset.
The driver of the truck, which was carrying a load of steel, escaped the inferno without injury.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which briefly caught onto grass in the nearby median strip.
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