{"id":249333,"date":"2026-03-24T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=249333"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:44:29","slug":"vehicle-fire-slows-i-16-near-metter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=249333","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle fire slows I-16 near Metter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A vehicle fire is causing delays on Interstate 16 eastbound near mile marker 96. Metter Fire Rescue crews are on scene working the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Traffic in the area has been reduced to one lane. Mile marker 96 on I-16 eastbound falls near Metter, the county seat of Candler County in southeast Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How This Affects Real People:<\/strong> Drivers on I-16 eastbound near mile marker 96 should expect delays and plan for slowdowns in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle fire is causing delays on Interstate 16 eastbound near mile marker 96. Metter Fire Rescue crews are on scene working the fire. What&#8217;s Happening: Traffic in the area has been reduced to one lane. Mile marker 96 on I-16 eastbound falls near Metter, the county seat of Candler County in southeast Georgia. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":249334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[8896,10098,17745],"class_list":["post-249333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-fire","tag-i-16","tag-vehicle-fire","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}