{"id":237348,"date":"2026-04-06T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:43:11","slug":"truck-driver-critically-injured-9000-gallon-gasoline-tanker-ignites-after-fort-worth-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237348\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver critically injured, 9,000-gallon gasoline tanker ignites after Fort Worth crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fort Worth gasoline tanker fire <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A truck driver is in critical condition after a car struck his gasoline tanker in Fort Worth early Sunday morning, sparking a massive fire that burned for several hours.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Fort Worth firefighters responded to the intersection of Trinity Boulevard and Highway 360 shortly after the collision occurred. Investigators say a passenger car struck the tanker, which was carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline, causing the truck to ignite and knocking down nearby power lines.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Hazardous materials teams were called to the scene to contain the blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The driver of the 18-wheeler was attempting to deploy specialized equipment to prevent the fire from spreading into a nearby gas station parking lot when the gasoline around him ignited, likely due to the downed power lines.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The driver was rushed to a local hospital with severe burns and was last reported to be in critical condition. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Fort Worth Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth gasoline tanker fire FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A truck driver is in critical condition after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-237348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237348","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=237348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}