{"id":137250,"date":"2026-03-13T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:00:07","slug":"fire-at-pennsylvania-turnpike-service-area-outside-philadelphia-scorches-tractor-trailer-hauling-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137250\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Pennsylvania Turnpike service area outside Philadelphia scorches tractor-trailer hauling produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tractor-trailer hauling fruits and vegetables was damaged in a fire at a rest stop along the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Friday morning, dispatchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The truck caught fire at the Valley Forge Service Area in Wayne before 6 a.m., Chester County dispatchers tell CBS News Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Crews arrived to find heavy fire but had it mostly under control by around 5:50 a.m. and began putting out hot spots.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/valley-forge-truck-fire-pennsylvania-turnpike.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"valley-forge-truck-fire-pennsylvania-turnpike.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Chopper 3\/CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>A frontend loader could be seen moving cargo out of the remnants of the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported and we&#8217;re working to learn the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tractor-trailer hauling fruits and vegetables was damaged in a fire at a rest stop along the Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,4696,16617],"class_list":["post-137250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-wayne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}