{"id":135964,"date":"2025-08-11T03:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135964\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:35:16","slug":"fire-at-south-la-battery-storage-facility-causes-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/135964\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at South LA battery storage facility causes explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Battery storage facility catches fire in South Los Angeles <\/p>\n

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Battery storage facility catches fire in South Los Angeles<\/p>\n

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No injuries have been reported after a fire at a battery storage facility in the Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles, near Gardena and Inglewood, caused an explosion on Sunday<\/p>\n

The fire was first reported at around 4:30 a.m. in the 16000 block of S. Vermont Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Crews say that the building caught fire after flames spread from a nearby trash fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They said that the building doubled as battery storage and a subterranean electrical vault. When the attic of the became involved with flames, firefighters said there was a small explosion that caused the roof to partially collapse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It took the combined effort of 144 firefighters 5 hours … in defensive mode to contain the complex fire and mitigate various safety considerations,” said a news release from LAFD. “Multiple LAFD units, including Hazmat, will remain on scene to monitor and control any fire or life safety hazards due to the large amount of lead-acid batteries burning at this commercial occupancy.”<\/p>\n

The fire was extinguished at around 10:30 a.m., firefighters said. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Dean Fioresi<\/a><\/p>\n

Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he’s not writing about local events, he enjoys focusing on sports and entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Battery storage facility catches fire in South Los Angeles Battery storage facility catches fire in South Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-135964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115008040138050513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}