{"id":187744,"date":"2026-02-21T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187744\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:39:07","slug":"4-dead-in-fiery-crash-near-long-beach-airport-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187744\/","title":{"rendered":"4 dead in fiery crash near Long Beach Airport \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were killed in a fiery crash near the Long Beach airport early Saturday morning, Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 1:30 a.m. to Lakewood Boulevard, south of Spring Street. Four victims were pronounced dead at the scene, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Their ages and genders were not available.<\/p>\n<p>News video at the scene shows a car had slammed head-on into a wall at the entrance of the Long Beach Airport tunnel before the vehicle burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it was unknown whether speed, or distracted or impaired driving contributed to the crash. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information will be added when it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were killed in a fiery crash near the Long Beach airport early Saturday morning, Feb. 21.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[350,138,131,133,132,100,136],"class_list":["post-187744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-crash","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187744","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=187744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}