{"id":347510,"date":"2026-07-21T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:32:12","slug":"tractor-trailer-carrying-potatoes-caught-fire-on-i-95-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347510\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor-trailer carrying potatoes caught fire on I-95 in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAll southbound lanes on I-95 in Martin County were temporarily closed after a truck fire near mile marker 90 early this morning.  Martin County Fire Rescue said an 18-wheeler hauling potatoes caught fire shortly after 6 a.m.  Your neighborhood: Local coverage from WPBF 25 NewsNo one was hurt in the incident.  The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of the fire.Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>All southbound lanes on I-95 in Martin County were temporarily closed after a truck fire near mile marker 90 early this morning.  <\/p>\n<p>Martin County Fire Rescue said an 18-wheeler hauling potatoes caught fire shortly after 6 a.m.  <\/p>\n<p>Your neighborhood: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/local-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local coverage from WPBF 25 News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one was hurt in the incident.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"An 18-wheeler carrying potatoes caught fire on I-95 in Martin County, shutting down all southbound lanes before reopening, with no injuries reported.\" title=\"Truck fire temporarily closes I-95 in Martin County\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1aad19d9-4d5f-4b6f-b835-cb220648f52b.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tMartin County Fire Rescue\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"An 18-wheeler carrying potatoes caught fire on I-95 in Martin County, shutting down all southbound lanes before reopening, with no injuries reported.\" title=\"Truck fire temporarily closes I-95 in Martin County\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f8d87526-c31f-42ba-92a3-8eb4549d6b57.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tMartin County Fire Rescue\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"An 18-wheeler carrying potatoes caught fire on I-95 in Martin County, shutting down all southbound lanes before reopening, with no injuries reported.\" title=\"Truck fire temporarily closes I-95 in Martin County\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2ca45281-5ab0-44b7-90df-2a5bfcfab3d7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tMartin County Fire Rescue\t<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All southbound lanes on I-95 in Martin County were temporarily closed after a truck fire near mile marker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5071,855,28,5085,675,1160,29306,5863,677,5127,10218,171,173,172,36241,29346,8967,142171,189],"class_list":["post-347510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-a-m","tag-fire","tag-florida","tag-i-95","tag-local-coverage","tag-martin-county","tag-mile-marker","tag-morning","tag-neighborhood","tag-news-app","tag-one","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-potato","tag-southbound-lane","tag-tractor-trailer","tag-truck-fire-temporarily-closes-i-95-in-martin-county","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347510","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=347510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}