{"id":281579,"date":"2026-06-29T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281579\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:55:39","slug":"news-12-bronx-truck-bursts-into-flames-shuts-down-portion-of-cross-bronx-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281579\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Truck Bursts Into Flames Shuts Down Portion Of Cross Bronx Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A truck with a trailer attached burst into flames and shut down all southbound lanes approaching Webster Avenue on the Cross Bronx Expressway, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says it was called to the scene near Exit 3 just after 3:30 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app footage taken from above the expressway shows orange flames shooting from the truck, as thick black smoke billows into the air. Firefighters were seen arriving on scene a short time later and blocked traffic on the southbound side.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say no one was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A truck with a trailer attached burst into flames and shut down all southbound lanes approaching Webster Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-281579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}