{"id":220690,"date":"2026-06-16T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220690\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:35:16","slug":"tea-truck-becomes-engulfed-in-flames-closes-pennsylvania-highway-for-hours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220690\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea truck becomes engulfed in flames, closes Pennsylvania highway for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A trailer carrying iced tea caught on fire on Thursday morning, closing a Pennsylvania highway for hours. <\/p>\n<p>The fire occurred on Route 222 North in Muhlenberg Township, Berks County, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MuhlenbergTWPFireandRescue66\/posts\/pfbid02Wfd53vCHstphnrWVqKr3YXeCLom2b9o3m7uM2J9LXSiedfDQjRCD14SnehKCgFHVl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Muhlenberg Township Fire &amp; Rescue. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crews were dispatched around 3:10 a.m. to find a trailer fully engulfed in flames. <\/p>\n<p><p>Crews worked to extinguish a trailer fire on Route 222 North in Muhlenberg Township, Pennsylvania, on the morning of June 11, 2026. (Muhlenberg Township Fire &amp; Rescue)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The fire was knocked within 20 minutes of crews arriving, though the road remained closed until around 8:30 a.m while the tow company removed the trailer and load from the highway. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported from the fire \u2014 photos from the fire company show the tractor driver had detached from the trailer when crews arrived. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A trailer carrying iced tea caught on fire on Thursday morning, closing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-220690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220690","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=220690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}