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A highway on-ramp was closed four hours Tuesday as crews clean up a leaking tanker truck that crashed.

Allen Dale Wightman, 51, of Clovis, was hauling 3,400 gallons of asphalt oil when he overturned the truck while trying to enter southbound Highway 99 from Rio Mirada Drive.

The California Highway Patrol news release said he was driving at an unknown speed, but Officer Robert Rodriguez said earlier in the day that he apparently took a corner too fast, which caused his load to shift and and flip over.

Wightman received minor injuries, according to the CHP.

It's not the best of sights to wake up to, seeing the empty lot next to your home on fire with the flames coming toward your house, but that's what happened to Kenneth Few.

At about 10:00am Sunday, Few saw flames coming over his fence toward his home located near Olive and Roberts Ln.

Firefighters were able to put out the fire without damage to the home, however, the fence did sustain damage.

Few is glad the fire didn't spread into the backyard. "We have paints and so forth and we're remodeling. They are right in that area. If it got across the fence then we would be in real trouble."

Firefighters say it only took them a few minutes to put the fire out.

About an acre of property was damaged.

A commercial plane made an emergency landing Friday morning at Meadows Field.

The plane's crew noticed smoke in the cockpit about 10 a.m., prompting the landing. No one was injured.

The plane was going to Fresno from Los Angeles.

The cause of the smoke is under investigation.

A Bakersfield mother wants her money back.  She paid a deposit and first month's rent on an apartment but says it was not cleaned up as she was promised.

Heather Mallory walked through the unit in the 100 block of Washington Avenue on Friday morning.  It wasn't in the shape she thinks is livable.

"There's a broken window," Mallory pointed out.  She motioned to bugs in the cupboards, stains and grime in the kitchen and bathroom.  "It was supposed to be cleaned," she said.

The apartment was being rented by Hankins Property Management.  Eyewitness News went to their office twice, and then phoned the owner.