{"id":109747,"date":"2026-01-08T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109747\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:27:08","slug":"semi-truck-carrying-propane-catches-fire-on-turnpike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/109747\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-truck carrying propane catches fire on Turnpike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A semi-truck carrying propane tanks engulfed in flames on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in St. Lucie County on Wednesday morning, shutting down all lanes and causing major delays for many commuters. <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at around 6:20 a.m. at mile marker 167 in the western part of the county. <\/p>\n<p>As of 9:30 a.m., all lanes are now open. <\/p>\n<p>Florida Highway Patrol told WPTV that the reason for the fire is unknown, and the driver was unharmed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A semi-truck carrying propane tanks engulfed in flames on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike in St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-109747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}