{"id":161610,"date":"2026-02-12T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161610\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:49:08","slug":"gulf-freeway-traffic-fuel-truck-fire-shuts-down-i-45-southbound-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161610\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Freeway traffic: Fuel truck fire shuts down I-45 southbound lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; The aftermath of a large truck fire southeast of Houston is causing major traffic delays as crews continue cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n<p>   Fuel truck fire <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to the Houston Fire Department, a fuel truck carrying about 9,000 gallons of gasoline caught fire around 2:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The truck was driving along the southbound lanes of I-45 Gulf Freeway near Bay Area Boulevard when the fire broke out.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">All southbound lanes of Gulf Freeway at Bay Area Boulevard will continue to be shutdown until cleanup is completed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The cause of the fire is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; The aftermath of a large truck fire southeast of Houston is causing major traffic delays as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,272,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-161610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-traffic","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}