{"id":82549,"date":"2025-12-10T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82549\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:05:09","slug":"south-houston-flaming-18-wheeler-stalls-ih-610-overpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82549\/","title":{"rendered":"South Houston: Flaming 18-wheeler stalls IH-610 overpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/g7xrcs3xyaabhvf.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston freeway was blocked by an 18-wheeler engulfed in flames Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Flaming 18-wheeler in Houston\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office alerted the public of the incident around 7:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">At that time, the truck was engulfed in flames on the IH-610 overpass at IH-45 in south Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Fire responders were on the way to the scene at that time as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/g7xx1vqxmaazqqd.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Houston Fire Department said a HazMat team was on the way to assist as well. The truck was possibly carrying hazardous material, but they say the tank has not ruptured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The sheriff&#8217;s office urged the public to stay away from the area, but no evacuation order or shelter in place has been issued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The truck&#8217;s contents have not been confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">No injuries have been reported at the time of publishing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article came from the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office ad the Houston Fire Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/traffic\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; A Houston freeway was blocked by an 18-wheeler engulfed in flames Tuesday evening.\u00a0 Flaming 18-wheeler&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82550,"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-82549","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\/82549","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=82549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}