{"id":281987,"date":"2026-06-30T04:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281987\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:27:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-truck-bursts-into-flames-shuts-down-portion-of-cross-bronx-expressway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281987\/","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\">According to an NYPD post on X, all lanes reopened about an hour later.<\/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":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-281987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281987","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=281987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281987\/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=281987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}