{"id":443950,"date":"2026-09-22T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443950\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:02:12","slug":"tractor-trailer-fire-closes-highway-59-lanes-near-fannin-st-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443950\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor-trailer fire closes Highway 59 lanes near Fannin St. in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drivers urged to avoid area and use alternate routes<\/p>\n

\"\"Big rig fire on Highway 59. (Onscene.TV)<\/p>\n

HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 An early morning tractor-trailer fire shut down all northbound lanes of Highway 59 near Fannin Street in Houston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The fire was reported at 2:47 a.m. The Houston Fire Department is on the scene handling the incident.<\/p>\n

Injuries, if any, have not yet been confirmed. No further details are available at this time.<\/p>\n

Drivers are urged to avoid the area and seek alternate routes. Updates will be provided as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n

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About the AuthorKatherine Levens headshot\"\"Katherine Levens<\/a><\/p>\n

Katherine Levens is a logistics coordinator from Fort Worth, Texas. Over the past six years she has worked in both the DFW and Houston markets, supporting operations and cross-market coordination. She earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Broadcast Communication from the University of Texas at Arlington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers urged to avoid area and use alternate routes Big rig fire on Highway 59. (Onscene.TV) HOUSTON, Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[153310,153308,56,19027,58,57,153309],"class_list":["post-443950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-alternate-routes-houston","tag-commercial-truck-fire","tag-houston","tag-houston-fire","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-traffic-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443950","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=443950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}