{"id":184762,"date":"2026-02-19T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:16:06","slug":"person-taking-apart-batteries-sparks-fire-in-westlake-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184762\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Taking Apart Batteries Sparks Fire in Westlake Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire sparked by a person disassembling lithium-ion batteries prompted a hazardous materials response Thursday morning at a Westlake apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to a \u201cwater flow\u201d call at 6:09 a.m. at 252 S. Rampart Boulevard and upon arrival reported smoke coming from the third floor of the modern six-story building, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five firefighters responded and within 30 minutes had extinguished the blaze, which was in a third-floor apartment, said LAFD spokeswoman Jennifer Middleton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHazMat units are on scene mitigating any further issues with the smoldering batteries, as well as monitoring air quality for the residents\u2019 ongoing safety,\u201d Middleton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire sparked by a person disassembling lithium-ion batteries prompted a hazardous materials response Thursday morning at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[87216,3895,15913,3802,48,52,51,47,50,49,7656,87217,10998,21177],"class_list":{"0":"post-184762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-apart","9":"tag-apartment","10":"tag-batteries","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-person","19":"tag-sparks","20":"tag-taking","21":"tag-westlake"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184762","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=184762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}