{"id":671876,"date":"2026-07-03T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671876\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:35:09","slug":"police-shut-m5-and-a38-after-huge-fire-breaks-out-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671876\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shut M5 and A38 after huge fire breaks out &#8211; updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a response to a motorist asking why the A38 was at a standstill &#8220;from A379 turnoff&#8221;, the National Highways replied at 3.15pm: &#8220;There is a grass fire in two locations on the A38 which caused Police to stop traffic. The southbound side has now been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We will issue an update shortly. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide any timeframes for this currently.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a response to a motorist asking why the A38 was at a standstill &#8220;from A379 turnoff&#8221;, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[188050,77340,19348,2686,59,57,58,38927,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-a38","tag-devon-and-somerset-fire-and-rescue","tag-exeter","tag-fires","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m5","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}