{"id":293553,"date":"2026-09-25T05:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293553\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:42:10","slug":"tractor-trailer-severely-damaged-after-brakes-catch-fire-on-i-476-northbound-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293553\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor-trailer severely damaged after brakes catch fire on I-476 Northbound | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A commercial motor vehicle went up in flames on Wednesday night on I-476 Northbound.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 7 p.m. near the Lehigh Valley Interchange northbound decel ramp under the Tilghman Street Bridge, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Upon exiting, the CMV Operator said he detected smoke while driving, and then a passenger vehicle pulled up alongside him and indicated his brakes were on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The truck operator pulled over to check the severity of the fire and was able to disconnect the truck from the trailer; however, he was unable to move it from underneath the bridge due to the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police say no one was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Bridge inspections will be conducted by authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A commercial motor vehicle went up in flames on Wednesday night on I-476 Northbound.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,107355,34428,83336,26329],"class_list":["post-293553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-i-176","tag-tractor-trailer-fire","tag-truck-fire","tag-vehicle-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293553","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=293553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}