{"id":90191,"date":"2026-01-18T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90191\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:27:06","slug":"engine-compartment-of-city-owned-salt-truck-became-engulfed-in-flames-after-mechanical-failure-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90191\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine compartment of city-owned salt truck became engulfed in flames after mechanical failure \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTBURGH  \u2014 A city-owned salt\/plow truck caught fire in Pittsburgh on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher confirms firefighters were sent to the intersection of S. 18th Street and Arlington Avenue around 8:45 a.m. for a reported truck fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A Pittsburgh Public Safety official said the DPW driver saw the engine and brake lights come on and pulled over safely before the engine compartment became engulfed in flames. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">There were no reported injuries. The official said the cause of the fire was deemed to be the mechanical failure of the engine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTBURGH \u2014 A city-owned salt\/plow truck caught fire in Pittsburgh on Sunday morning. An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21875,44577,33665,73,44578,75,74,28983,28570,44576,44575],"class_list":["post-90191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-department-of-public-works","tag-department-of-public-works-fire","tag-dpw","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-department-of-public-works-fire","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-plow","tag-plow-truck","tag-plow-truck-fire","tag-salt-truck-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191","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=90191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}