Firefighters responded to the fire on Interstate 24 East about 2 a.m., officials said.
“The owners got the elephants safely out of the trailer and gave them some hay to munch on while firefighters put the fire out,” the post read.
Elephants on I-24...Another Day in the Office So what is that peeking its large head over a guardrail on the interstate...
Posted by Chattanooga Fire Department on Monday, November 20, 2017
Officials have not said who owned the animals, which were headed to Sarasota, Florida.
The elephants are just the latest animals to find their way onto Georgia highways in the past few months.
Suzy, a 6-year-old Bengal tiger, was shot and killed after roaming a Henry County neighborhood and attacking a dog, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. The tiger, who was owned by a former Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus presenter, escaped from a transport truck carrying 14 other big cats from Florida to Tennessee.
Federal authorities will investigate whether charges should be filed against circus parent company Feld Entertainment and its owner.
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