{"id":259188,"date":"2025-09-27T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259188\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:40:15","slug":"large-auto-lot-fire-burning-in-chicago-heights-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259188\/","title":{"rendered":"Large auto lot fire burning in Chicago Heights, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are battling a large fire in Chicago Heights on Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Heights Fire Department responded to the fire at an auto salvage lot located, 630 Joe Orr Rd,\u00a0 around 8:30 a.m. Fire officials said additional fire crews have been called to help with the response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said burning tires are producing excessive smoke, which has been the main challenge. No injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke billowing from the fire was seen from the South Side of Chicago\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7bf6d4c4-9cec-46ab-8e78-8ec9ef92d17b.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"7bf6d4c4-9cec-46ab-8e78-8ec9ef92d17b.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Orr Road is closed between State Street and Cottage Grove.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. CBS News Chicago will continue to provide updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/elyssa-kaufman\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elyssa  Kaufman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Elyssa is a digital news producer for CBS Chicago. She covers breaking news and manages the station&#8217;s social media presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live Firefighters are battling a large fire in Chicago Heights on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,14677,5025,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-259188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-heights","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115277255833691215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259188","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=259188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}