{"id":152779,"date":"2026-01-28T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152779\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:14:10","slug":"2-hurt-in-explosion-fire-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152779\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hurt in explosion, fire in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Los Angeles County Fire Department is responding to a reported explosion and fire at a home in Bell Gardens Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The blast was reported a few minutes after 6 p.m. in the 6500 block of Purdy Avenue, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LACoFDPIO\/status\/2016339536952099121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:On social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">On social media<\/a>, the Fire Department characterized it as a two-story home on fire.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bell Gardens fire\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"504\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9c4148b46c10230194a80001101aebe3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Footage shared to the Citizen app shows a large fire in Bell Gardens on Jan. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bell Gardens fire, explosion\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"497\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/48a7f73537551fb43493a9236effc076.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A home in Bell Gardens exploded and burned on Jan. 27, 2026. (KTLA)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bell Gardens fire, explosion\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"507\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cbbd7c7aaef11e4441f9b74875802ff1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A home in Bell Gardens exploded and burned on Jan. 27, 2026. (KTLA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Bell Gardens Police Department confirmed that 59 firefighters battled a blaze there, though no explosion was mentioned in their social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.com\/-Ok1Ato5Zlk_M4zA4cSX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Footage shared to the Citizen app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Footage shared to the Citizen app<\/a> showed a large fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were hurt and taken to local hospitals, though their conditions and identities haven\u2019t been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The public is encouraged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Luis Zuniga contributed to this report. Check back for updates to this developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County Fire Department is responding to a reported explosion and fire at a home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75267,7,9,8,11057,4407,75268],"class_list":["post-152779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bell-gardens","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fire-department","tag-ktla","tag-reported-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}