{"id":172920,"date":"2026-02-28T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172920\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:56:08","slug":"vehicle-fire-on-floridas-turnpike-closes-all-southbound-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172920\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle fire on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike closes all southbound lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A vehicle fire on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike on the boarder of Indian River County and St. Lucie County caused all southbound lanes to close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was just over the county boarder in Fort Pierce, according to the Florida Highway Patrol&#8217;s live traffic feed. Rescue crews responded to the crash at 6:51 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No additional information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/staff\/74965934007\/olivia-franklin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Olivia Franklin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Olivia Franklin<\/a> is TCPalm\u2019s trending reporter. You can contact her at olivia.franklin@tcpalm.com, 317-627-8048 or follow her on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Livvvvv_5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@Livvvvv_5;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@Livvvvv_5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/local\/florida\/2026\/02\/28\/vehicle-fire-florida-turnpike-all-lanes-closed-fort-pierce-st-lucie-county-indian-river-county\/88916932007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vehicle fire on Florida&#039;s Turnpike causes all lanes to close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Vehicle fire on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike causes all lanes to close<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle fire on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike on the boarder of Indian River County and St. Lucie County caused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,618,29,3886,12189,20796,1402,23850],"class_list":["post-172920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-pierce","tag-indian-river-county","tag-southbound-lanes","tag-st-lucie-county","tag-vehicle-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172920","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=172920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}