{"id":216860,"date":"2026-03-12T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216860\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:26:07","slug":"explosion-threat-prompts-91-freeway-closure-after-big-rig-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216860\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Threat Prompts 91 Freeway Closure After Big Rig Catches Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERSIDE, CA &#8212; Eastbound and westbound lanes of the 91 Freeway were shut down Thursday morning after a big rig caught fire near Adams Street, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported around 11:30 a.m., according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p>Riverside Fire Department said the blaze posed a threat for possible explosion.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a SigAlert has been issued and the freeway closures are a mile long in both directions. The closures could last for two hours.<\/p>\n<p>No additional information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this developing story for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIVERSIDE, CA &#8212; Eastbound and westbound lanes of the 91 Freeway were shut down Thursday morning after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-216860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216860","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=216860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}