{"id":202298,"date":"2026-03-03T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:16:08","slug":"southbound-i-805-lanes-near-i-8-closed-after-semi-truck-catches-fire-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202298\/","title":{"rendered":"Southbound I-805 lanes near I-8 closed after semi-truck catches fire \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple lanes of southbound Interstate 805 were closed early Tuesday after a semi-truck caught on fire in the Mission Valley area.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported at around 6:10 a.m. on I-805 near the Interstate 8 freeway just south of Murray Ridge Road. <\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said all lanes will be closed for about five hours. There is heavy traffic in the area, and the CHP advised drivers to divert to SR-163 if they wanted to continue going southbound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Big-rig.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic on the northbound I-805 is backed up from SR-54 to I-8. Drivers are advised to utilize alternate routes. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Please refresh this page for updates on this story. Details may change as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple lanes of southbound Interstate 805 were closed early Tuesday after a semi-truck caught on fire in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,10705],"class_list":{"0":"post-202298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-san-diego","9":"tag-san-diego-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego-news","11":"tag-traffic-alert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}