{"id":273739,"date":"2026-04-18T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:01:11","slug":"expect-delays-after-semi-truck-fire-on-southbound-i-5-near-fort-tejon-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273739\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect delays after semi-truck fire on southbound I-5 near Fort Tejon Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Expect delays if planning to travel down south after a semi-truck caught fire on southbound Interstate 5 near Fort Tejon Road.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP\u2019s website said on April 17, at around 3:17 p.m., there was a report of a semi-truck on fire on  southbound Interstate 5 near Fort Tejon Road.<\/p>\n<p>The website said the right two lanes are being requested to close.<\/p>\n<p>The website said the trailer was carrying grain or pistachios.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Expect delays if planning to travel down south after a semi-truck caught fire on southbound Interstate 5 near Fort Tejon Road. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/28fe1b0d-7b85-490c-bafd-b3b590e991af-Media1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Expect delays if planning to travel down south after a semi-truck caught fire on southbound Interstate 5 near Fort Tejon Road. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>The website said the grass on the right-hand shoulder was starting to catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Expect delays if planning to travel down south after a semi-truck caught fire on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-273739","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\/273739","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=273739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}