{"id":559580,"date":"2026-02-01T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559580\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:33:10","slug":"big-rig-fire-near-downtown-dallas-leads-to-i-45-lane-closures-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559580\/","title":{"rendered":"Big rig fire near downtown Dallas leads to I-45 lane closures Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Authorities on Sunday closed several lanes of Interstate 45 near d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/downtown-dallas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/downtown-dallas\/\">owntown Dallas<\/a> after a big rig caught fire, according to Texas Department of Transportation officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The incident occurred around noon at I-45 and Main Street, according to TXDOT. As of 3 p.m. Sunday, it appeared that traffic was moving again in two of the interstate\u2019s lanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Flames and black smoke coming from the vehicle were visible for miles but no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas-Fire Rescue spokesperson Jason Evans said the semi\u2019s engine malfunctioned before it caught on fire. <\/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\">The fire was contained to the cab, Evans said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities on Sunday closed several lanes of Interstate 45 near downtown Dallas after a big rig caught fire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":559581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,50,358,314,16476,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-559580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-accidents","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115997756925335189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}