{"id":142542,"date":"2026-02-03T22:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:34:12","slug":"brush-fire-on-i-75-near-kings-highway-exit-in-charlotte-county-temporarily-closes-lanes-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142542\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire on I-75 near Kings Highway exit in Charlotte County temporarily closes lanes | Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla.\u2014Emergency vehicles were on scene on Interstate 75, combating a brush fire that had temporarily shut down both north and southbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Crews responded to the fire at around 2:20 p.m. on Monday near mile marker 172.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At 2:38 p.m., crews reopened southbound lanes, resuming traffic flow. Northbound lanes are still backed up starting from around mile marker 169 and lasting until mile marker 173.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Motorists traveling northbound are advised to take exit 170, Kings Highway, as an alternative route.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla.\u2014Emergency vehicles were on scene on Interstate 75, combating a brush fire that had temporarily shut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250],"class_list":{"0":"post-142542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-charlotte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142542","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=142542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}