{"id":138475,"date":"2026-03-14T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138475\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:21:08","slug":"tractor-trailer-fire-shuts-down-lane-on-i-78-in-upper-saucon-township-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138475\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor trailer fire shuts down lane on I-78 in Upper Saucon Township | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; A tractor trailer caught fire on I-78 on Friday night, temporarily closing down one lane of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that the incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. in Upper Saucon Township and that no injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police and fire crews handled the incident and diverted traffic onto Route 309 after closing down one lane and the shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; A tractor trailer caught fire on I-78 on Friday night, temporarily closing down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-138475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138475","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=138475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}