{"id":559062,"date":"2026-04-01T22:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:50:18","slug":"fire-engulfs-car-on-shoulder-of-i-70-near-beltway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559062\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs car on shoulder of I-70 near Beltway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fire engulfs car in median of Interstate 70 in Woodlawn near Baltimore Beltway<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAND CAPTAIN ROY TAYLOR, WHAT\u2019S GOING ON BELOW YOU? YES, SIR. THIS IS EASTBOUND ROUTE 70 BETWEEN THE HOWARD COUNTY LINE AND THE BELTWAY. AUTO FIRE IS IN THE MEDIAN STRIP HERE. THE STATE POLICE ARE ON THE SCENE. THEY\u2019RE TRYING TO DIVERT ALL THE TRAFFIC INTO THE SLOW LANE. IN FACT, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY\u2019RE BLOCKING THE ENTIRE EASTBOUND SIDE OF THE ROUTE 70 HERE BECAUSE OF THE EXPLOSIONS THAT WE\u2019RE SEEING COMING FROM THE AUTO FIRE DEPARTMENT JUST ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. THEY\u2019RE GETTING READY TO TRY AND DO AN AGGRESSIVE ATTACK AND EXTINGUISH THIS FIRE. IT\u2019S EVEN STARTING THE GRASS TO BURN HERE. WE DON\u2019T HAVE A CAUSE. WE DO NOT HAVE REPORTS OF INJURIES. BUT TRAFFIC IS SLOW, WESTBOUND AND EASTBOUND AT THIS LOCATION. AS\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Fire engulfs car in median of Interstate 70 in Woodlawn near Baltimore Beltway<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"WBAL<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:29 PM EDT Apr 1, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA fire engulfed a car Wednesday afternoon on the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 70 near the Beltway, SKY 11 reported.Check LIVE traffic map and cameras in the WBAL-TV 11 News appAround 4:45 p.m., Maryland state troopers were blocking the eastbound lanes amid explosions from the fire.Westbound traffic was also backed up, SKY 11 Capt. Roy Taylor reported.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tWOODLAWN, Md. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A fire engulfed a car Wednesday afternoon on the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 70 near the Beltway, SKY 11 reported.<\/p>\n

Around 4:45 p.m., Maryland state troopers were blocking the eastbound lanes amid explosions from the fire.<\/p>\n

Westbound traffic was also backed up, SKY 11 Capt. Roy Taylor reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire engulfs car in median of Interstate 70 in Woodlawn near Baltimore Beltway AND CAPTAIN ROY TAYLOR, WHAT\u2019S…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[247930,247926,185264,53331,247932,4,450,21087,247931,88195,247936,50669,1919,10070,247933,247925,451,133336,247928,15614,247929,53342,8640,185263,247935,53335,3,247934,22215,110168,10265,452,453,185262,247927,136827],"class_list":["post-559062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-247930","tag-70-traffic","tag-baltimore-news","tag-baltimore-traffic","tag-beltway","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-camera","tag-car-fire","tag-car-on-fire","tag-eastbound-interstate","tag-eastbound-lane","tag-explosion","tag-fire","tag-fire-engulfs-car","tag-fire-on-i-70","tag-headlines","tag-i-70","tag-i-70-traffic","tag-interstate-70","tag-interstate-70-traffic","tag-live-traffic-map","tag-maryland","tag-maryland-news","tag-maryland-state-trooper","tag-maryland-traffic","tag-news","tag-news-apparound","tag-p-m","tag-shoulder","tag-sky","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wbal-news","tag-wbal-traffic","tag-wbal-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}