BATON ROUGE - Traffic started to stack up along Interstate 12 eastbound around 5:45 p.m. Wednesday near the Essen Lane exit after a car caught on fire. 

LaDOTD cameras showed firefighters responding to the fire and putting it out. 

Congestion has backed up past the I-10/I-12 split. 

No information about the vehicle fire has been released. 

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