{"id":7105,"date":"2025-10-16T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7105\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:16:08","slug":"i-35e-closed-near-lake-dallas-after-18-wheeler-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7105\/","title":{"rendered":"I-35E closed near Lake Dallas after 18-wheeler catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A stretch of Interstate 35 East near Lake Dallas was blocked Thursday afternoon after an 18-wheeler caught fire, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">According to an online incident report, the semi-truck was ablaze along a portion of the highway near Swisher Road. On its Facebook page, Lake Dallas officials attributed the shut down to a \u201cmajor accident.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">All lanes, northbound and southbound, were closed as a TXDOT camera showed drivers exiting at Quail Run Drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Corinth police said to expect \u201csignificant delays,\u201d but did not provide an estimate as to when the lanes would reopen. <\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">No additional information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stretch of Interstate 35 East near Lake Dallas was blocked Thursday afternoon after an 18-wheeler caught fire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,223,272],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","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=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}