{"id":67618,"date":"2025-11-24T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/67618\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:18:11","slug":"outbound-lanes-of-the-parkway-east-closed-due-to-early-morning-vehicle-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/67618\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbound lanes of the Parkway East closed due to early-morning vehicle fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outbound lanes of the Parkway East are closed near the Hot Metal Bridge due to a vehicle that caught on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle caught fire around 5:30 a.m. early Monday morning along I-376 between the Oakland exit and the Squirrel Hill Tunnel and crews quickly responded, shutting down traffic while first responders were on scene.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/screenshot-2025-11-24-053526.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-11-24-053526.png \" height=\"391\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The outbound lanes of the Parkway East were shut down early Monday morning after a vehicle caught fire between the Oakland exit and the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Drone Team \/ KDKA Photojournalist Brian Smithmyer<\/p>\n<p>Aerial footage from the KDKA Drone Team appeared to show two vehicles blocking the highway with heavy smoke pouring from one of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for PennDOT said that all traffic is being directed off of the Parkway at the Oakland\/Forbes Avenue exit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if any injuries have been reported or when the Parkway is expected to reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outbound lanes of the Parkway East are closed near the Hot Metal Bridge due to a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[40195,143,145,144,40194,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-67618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-i-376","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news","12":"tag-penndot","13":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67618","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=67618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}