{"id":251971,"date":"2026-04-30T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:55:08","slug":"crews-put-out-truck-fire-on-sawgrass-expressway-in-sunrise-southbound-lanes-back-open-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251971\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews put out truck fire on Sawgrass Expressway in Sunrise; southbound lanes back open &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUNRISE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A tractor-trailer carrying recyclables caught fire along the Sawgrass Expressway in Sunrise, temporarily shutting down all southbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>7Skyforce hovered above crews with the Coral Spings-Parkland and Sunrise Fire departments as they fought the flames in the trailer of the 18-wheeler off the side of the road near Commercial Boulevard, just after 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The truck\u2019s alert driver noticed there was smoke billowing from the back of his trailer and pulled over to the side.<\/p>\n<p>Sunrise Fire Rescue officials said the driver was able to exit the vehicle and was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>All southbound lanes have since reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A tractor-trailer carrying recyclables caught fire along the Sawgrass Expressway in Sunrise, temporarily shutting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-251971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251971","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=251971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}