{"id":595675,"date":"2026-04-10T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:14:10","slug":"small-fire-from-welding-tool-disrupts-traffic-on-stalewasem-bridge-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595675\/","title":{"rendered":"Small fire from welding tool disrupts traffic on stal\u2019ew\u2019asem bridge: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Small fire from welding tool disrupts traffic on stal\u2019ew\u2019asem bridge: police<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 12:42 pm Friday, April 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A small fire \u201ccaused by a worker\u2019s welding tool\u201d under the stal\u2019ew\u2019asem Bridge temporarily closed southbound lanes on the bridge and closed Royal Ave and McBride Boulevard in New Westminster Friday (April. 10), Surrey Police said.<\/p>\n<p>The left lane travelling southbound is now open, according to Drive BC.<\/p>\n<p>New Westminster Police stated in a social media post that the \u201cfire is out and the bridge is open sooner than anticipated,\u201d but warned to expect delays.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Police, New Westminster Police and Surrey Fire attended the scene. There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Small fire from welding tool disrupts traffic on stal\u2019ew\u2019asem bridge: police Published 12:42 pm Friday, April 10, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-595675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}