MURRIETA  - A motorist was seriously burned today when his sedan caught fire on Interstate 15 in Murrieta, leading to a brush fire adjacent to the freeway that was quickly contained. The car fire was reported about 2:30 p.m. on the southbound I-15, just north of Winchester Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. The agency said the Toyota went off of the freeway and down an embankment, where it erupted in flames. The driver, identified only as a 31-year-old man, was exposed to the fire for an unknown duration before getting a safe distance away, suffering burns to his hands, arms and other parts of the upper body, according to reports from the scene. An off-duty paramedic stopped on the freeway and ran to the man's aid, determining that he had burns to nearly 40% of his body
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