{"id":161678,"date":"2026-02-12T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161678\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:50:11","slug":"fuel-truck-fire-shuts-down-southbound-lanes-on-i-45-hfd-says-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161678\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel truck fire shuts down southbound lanes on I-45, HFD says \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/?attachment_id=543185\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-543185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GulfFreewayTankerFire-HFD-750x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Gulf Freeway Fuel Truck Fire\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Houston Fire Department via X<\/p>\n<p>A fuel truck carrying about 9,000 gallons of gasoline caught fire on the Gulf Freeway early Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, according to the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound lanes on Interstate 45 near Bay Area Boulevard were shut down Thursday morning after a fuel truck caught fire on the freeway, according to the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was carrying about 9,000 gallons of gasoline, according to the fire department, which said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HoustonFire\/status\/2021927896873345274\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media post<\/a> that no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut cleanup continues, so lanes will remain shut down until completed,\u201d the fire department wrote in its post a little before 7 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started at about 2:30 a.m., according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Transportation said its crews were on the scene assisting with cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Houston TranStar encouraged impacted motorists to find alternate routes and monitor traffic conditions at its <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.houstontranstar.org\/layers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Fire Department via X A fuel truck carrying about 9,000 gallons of gasoline caught fire on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28659,56,7189,58,57,21639,66228,14032,66,223,1225,272,840,66183],"class_list":{"0":"post-161678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-gulf-freeway","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-fire-department","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-houston-traffic","14":"tag-houston-transtar","15":"tag-i-45","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-public-safety","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-transportation","21":"tag-truck-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161678","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=161678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}