{"id":355361,"date":"2026-06-10T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:00:27","slug":"amazon-big-rig-catches-fire-slows-i-80-traffic-in-placer-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355361\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon big rig catches fire, slows I-80 traffic in Placer County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon semi-truck that caught fire was causing major delays on Interstate 80 in Placer County late Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans said westbound I-80 just north of Applegate was reduced to one lane as crews worked to clear the big rig from the area.<\/p>\n<p>As of around 3:30 p.m., Caltrans said the fire had been put out but there was no estimated time for the lanes to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>A photo from the scene shows the rear end of the big rig with extensive fire damage and packages spilled out onto the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/amazon-big-rig-fire-placer-co-i80.png#.png\" alt=\"amazon-big-rig-fire-placer-co-i80.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Caltrans<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Sacramento reached out to the California Highway Patrol&#8217;s Auburn office for additional information but has not immediately heard back.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amazon semi-truck that caught fire was causing major delays on Interstate 80 in Placer County late Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10288,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-355361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-placer-county","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355361","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=355361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}