{"id":1346910,"date":"2024-08-15T03:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1346910"},"modified":"2024-08-15T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:16:43","slug":"update-us-79-reopens-after-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1346910","title":{"rendered":"<strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>  US 79 reopens after fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1346911\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/2024-08-15_035044-199x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/2024-08-15_035044-199x200.jpg 199w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/2024-08-15_035044-348x350.jpg 348w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/2024-08-15_035044.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Rusk County officials said one person is dead after the crash on US 79 Wednesday afternoon. The Rusk County Emergency Management said the highway has reopened and DPS is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>RUSK COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c At least one person is injured after a major crash on US 79, Rusk County officials said. The highway is currently closed and drivers are being rerouted. Our news partner KETK is reporting that Rusk County Emergency Management Coordinator Patrick Dooley, the crash affected eastbound and westbound traffic. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Traffic is being rerouted from FM 1798 South to FM 348 back to US 79,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rusk County officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Dooley confirmed at least one person is injured, but their condition is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The Rusk County Emergency Management and Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office Facebook page will share when the highway has reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Rusk County officials said one person is dead after the crash on US 79 Wednesday afternoon. The Rusk County Emergency Management said the highway has reopened and DPS is investigating. RUSK COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c At least one person is injured after a major crash on US 79, Rusk County officials said. The highway is currently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1346910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>  US 79 reopens after fatal crash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1346912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/2024-08-15_035044-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 18:00:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/2024-08-15_035044-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347187,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346910\/revisions\/1347187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}