{"id":98562,"date":"2026-01-28T05:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:45:06","slug":"tractor-trailer-fire-snarls-traffic-on-i-78-in-northampton-county-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98562\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor-trailer fire snarls traffic on I-78 in Northampton County | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L. SAUCON TWP., Pa. \u2013 A tractor-trailer fire late Tuesday night snarled traffic on Interstate 78 westbound in Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. just before Exit 67 for Route 412 &#8211; Hellertown\/Bethlehem. It reportedly involved a trailer hauling canned tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>By 11:30 p.m., traffic was backed up for miles westbound, back to about a half mile from the Route 33 entrance ramp onto I-78.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer had been moved to the shoulder with police and fire crews on the scene, but vehicles were only slowly moving through one lane near the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known what caused the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L. SAUCON TWP., Pa. \u2013 A tractor-trailer fire late Tuesday night snarled traffic on Interstate 78 westbound in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-98562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-bethlehem-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98562","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=98562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}