{"id":57150,"date":"2026-09-26T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-truck-caught-fire-on-umbilo-road-this-afternoon-shortly-after-coming-from-the-edwin-swales-area\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:30:05","slug":"a-truck-caught-fire-on-umbilo-road-this-afternoon-shortly-after-coming-from-the-edwin-swales-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-truck-caught-fire-on-umbilo-road-this-afternoon-shortly-after-coming-from-the-edwin-swales-area\/","title":{"rendered":"A truck caught fire on Umbilo Road this afternoon shortly after coming from the Edwin Swales area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truck caught fire on Umbilo Road this afternoon shortly after coming from the Edwin Swales area. The driver managed to get out after seeing the fire, while eThekwini Fire Department arrived and brought the fire under control.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the firefighters for responding and making sure the fire was put out before it could spread.<\/p>\n<p>[Clairwood Worldwide]&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78726&#038;page=a-truck-caught-fire-on-umbilo-road-this-afternoon-shortly-after-coming-from-the-edwin-swales-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck caught fire on Umbilo Road this afternoon shortly after coming from the Edwin Swales area. The driver managed to get out after seeing the fire, while eThekwini Fire Department arrived and brought the fire under control. Thank you to the firefighters for responding and making sure the fire was put out before it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/818297285_122211897092512066_5684304837662333071_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/818297285_122211897092512066_5684304837662333071_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}