{"id":318385,"date":"2026-08-11T03:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:54:16","slug":"truck-fire-shuts-down-lanes-on-brooklyn-queens-expressway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318385\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Fire Shuts Down Lanes On Brooklyn-Queens Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A vehicle fire is blocking all lanes eastbound on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway past Flushing Avenue. Use alternate routes. \u2014 NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2086927445383352716\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">August 10, 2026<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters remained at the scene for more than an hour after the initial call. The incident closed at 5:56 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not immediately provide a cause for the fire or report when normal traffic conditions would fully return.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle fire is blocking all lanes eastbound on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway past Flushing Avenue. Use alternate routes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-318385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318385","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=318385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}