{"id":493597,"date":"2026-10-12T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493597\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:56:13","slug":"elk-grove-big-rig-fire-slows-southbound-highway-99-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493597\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Grove big rig fire slows southbound Highway 99 traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big rig fire is slowing traffic on southbound Highway 99 through Elk Grove Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to California Highway Patrol, the fire started shortly before 6 a.m. just south of Elk Grove Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The cab of the big rig caught fire, but the trailer, which was carrying wood pallets, did not burn. The driver was not hurt. <\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound Highway 99 was reduced to one lane, causing delays toward Galt. Northbound traffic was not affected.<\/p>\n<p>A tow truck arrived around 6:30 a.m., but the lane closure was expected to remain in place for some time.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big rig fire is slowing traffic on southbound Highway 99 through Elk Grove Monday morning. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4106,1825,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-493597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-elk-grove","tag-highway-99","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493597","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=493597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}