{"id":109004,"date":"2025-08-31T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109004\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:05:12","slug":"firefighters-battle-blaze-in-industrial-area-east-of-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109004\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle blaze in industrial area east of Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are working to douse a large fire in an industrial area in Strathcona County, just east of Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>According to a social media post by Strathcona County Mayor Rod Frank, the fire is &#8220;of used appliances burning&#8221; at a\u00a0recycling company, located just off 34th Street. The mayor said\u00a0there is no risk to the public because the fire is contained.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded to an industrial fire around 8:30 a.m. Saturday,\u00a0on the west end of Sherwood Park, the county told CBC News in a\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported and there is no risk to the public at this time, but people are asked to the avoid the area &#8220;due to\u00a0the inherent\u00a0toxic nature of the smoke,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A large plume of black smoke with a guardrail. \"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sherwood-park-fire.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1423039690222652\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A large fire in an industrial area of Strathcona County was visible throughout the Edmonton region on Saturday.  (Submitted by Kelly Williams)<\/p>\n<p>Alberta Environment has been notified, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews are expected\u00a0to be on scene for most of the day, according to a post from Strathcona County firefighters shared on the county&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A firefighter moves a pylon on a road. A large plume of smoke can be seen in the background. \"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/firefighters.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4443084455324358\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A large fire in Strathcona County caused road closures in the area Saturday afternoon.  (Adrienne Lamb\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Large volumes of heavy black smoke can be seen throughout the capital region as crews continue to battle this fire,&#8221; the post says.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Police Service said in a news release Saturday morning that\u00a034th Street is closed between Sherwood Park Freeway and Baseline Road, as police help with traffic control for the fire. An update from the county at 5:18 p.m. said the road closure remains in effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are working to douse a large fire in an industrial area in Strathcona County, just east of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-109004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}