{"id":165315,"date":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165315\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:58:13","slug":"dump-truck-fire-leads-to-backups-on-i-76-west-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165315\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump truck fire leads to backups on I-76 West in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The westbound lanes of Interstate 76 were temporarily blocked in Philadelphia Tuesday morning after a dump truck caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Images from Chopper 3 showed the charred remains of the truck sitting in the median near the City Avenue exit.<\/p>\n<p>The lanes were reopened and traffic was beginning to move after 6 a.m., but a significant backup remains.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i76-westbound-truck-fire.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"i76-westbound-truck-fire.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>If you want to avoid all this, consider alternate routes like Kelly Drive, Ridge Avenue, Main Street, Belmont Avenue or City Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to local authorities for more information on the cause of the truck fire.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The westbound lanes of Interstate 76 were temporarily blocked in Philadelphia Tuesday morning after a dump truck caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73835,28,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-165315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-interstate-76","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165315","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=165315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}