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A tractor-trailer driver is dead after a fiery crash on Interstate 240 eastbound at Millbranch Road on Thursday night.

The tractor-trailer overturned and burst into flames around 9:45 p.m.

Crews pulled the driver from the truck. He was sent in extremely critical condition to the Regional Medical Center, where he died.

The driver's name hasn't been released but WMC Action News 5 has found that he is from Memphis, worked for J and J Waste and was hauling paper when the crash happened.