{"id":378751,"date":"2026-08-23T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378751\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:24:08","slug":"car-catches-fire-after-crash-with-amtrak-train-in-oakland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378751\/","title":{"rendered":"Car catches fire after crash with Amtrak train in Oakland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 9:09 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 Fire rescue crews responded to a fiery crash involving a car and an Amtrak train in Oakland Park on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash happened at around 7:30 p.m. near Powerline and Prospect roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">First responders assessed the passengers and train crew and no one was hurt, a Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The spokesperson said two people were being assessed at the scene, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The grade crossings near Powerline and Prospect roads were blocked off and traffic was being detoured as authorities investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Aaron Maybin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1f0fdcc-a947-4d3e-8210-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Aaron Maybin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Aaron came to Local 10 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WITI-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM Updated:\u00a0August 22, 2026 at 9:09 PM OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 Fire rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-378751","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\/378751","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=378751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}