{"id":346836,"date":"2026-07-21T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346836\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:48:07","slug":"garbage-truck-fire-forces-load-dump-on-cape-coral-street-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346836\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage truck fire forces load dump on Cape Coral street | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 Cape Coral firefighters responded to a garbage fire late Monday morning after the contents of a Waste Pro truck caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoralfire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cape Coral Fire Department<\/a>, the driver dumped the load in the roadway per company policy to protect the truck and allow firefighters access to put out the fire. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Waste Pro sent another truck to collect the debris after firefighters extinguished the flames. The incident occurred in the 4700 block of SW 23rd Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department said the incident serves as an important reminder never to put anything hazardous in curbside waste. This includes lithium-ion batteries and fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>Hazardous waste can be taken to Topaz Court Annex in Fort Myers or one of the city&#8217;s biannual collection events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014 Cape Coral firefighters responded to a garbage fire late Monday morning after the contents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,5681,211,210,5926,28,120239,142012],"class_list":["post-346836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-fire-department","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collier-county","tag-florida","tag-garbage-truck","tag-waste-collection-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346836","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=346836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}