{"id":208645,"date":"2026-03-07T06:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208645\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:42:06","slug":"semi-truck-fire-shuts-down-northbound-lanes-of-i-5-near-quail-lake-road-chp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208645\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-truck fire shuts down northbound lanes of I-5 near Quail Lake Road: CHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Traffic came to a standstill on northbound Interstate 5 on Friday night after a semi-trailer caught fire just south of Quail Lake Road, fully engulfing the vehicle. It&#8217;s unknown if anyone was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>At least one lane reopened just before 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All lanes were stopped at around 9:43 p.m. It was not immediately known when the area would reopen.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened just after 9:30 p.m. Avoid the area, if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are advised to check the <a href=\"https:\/\/cad.chp.ca.gov\/Traffic.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California Highway Patrol\u2019s Traffic Incident Information Page<\/a> under the \u201cLos Angeles\u201d tab for updates on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Traffic came to a standstill on northbound Interstate 5 on Friday night after a semi-trailer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-208645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208645","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=208645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}