{"id":276716,"date":"2026-09-01T19:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276716\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:28:20","slug":"traffic-moving-slowly-in-erie-county-due-to-semi-fire-odot-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276716\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic moving slowly in Erie County due to semi fire, ODOT says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ERIE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is reporting that traffic is moving slowly in a part of Erie County due to a semi fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to ODOT, the traffic is on state route 2 westbound just west of the state Route 60 ramps. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Traffic moving slowly in Erie County due to semi fire, ODOT says\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2RTZ7TLOJNDMNDGQSBSGXYE7EA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Traffic moving slowly in Erie County due to semi fire, ODOT says(Source: ODOT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident is unrelated to the resurfacing project in that area, but emergency personnel are on scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ODOT says motorists are advised to avoid the area and seek an alternate route. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is no estimated time as to when traffic will reopen and the incident will be cleared, ODOT said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">19 News has made call outs to nearby fire departments for more information on the accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for updates. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is reporting that traffic is moving slowly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,57171,116010,116012,116011,116013],"class_list":["post-276716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-ohio-department-of-transportation","tag-state-route-2-westbound","tag-state-route-60","tag-state-route-60-ramps","tag-vermilion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276716","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=276716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}