{"id":251639,"date":"2026-04-04T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:19:14","slug":"firefighters-battle-blaze-at-san-francisco-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251639\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle blaze at San Francisco International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters battled a blaze at San Francisco International Airport on Friday, an incident that didn\u2019t affect flight operations but did trigger the closure of some roadways near the aviation hub.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco and San Mateo County fire crews were on the scene of a blaze that was burning Friday in five storage boxes in the cargo area of the airport, the San Francisco Fire Department reported on its X social media account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"San Francisco Fire Department crews battle a blaze that broke out at San Francisco International Airport, seen on April 3, 2026.(San Francisco Fire Department)\" width=\"1536\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SJM-L-SFOFIRE-02.jpg\" \/>San Francisco Fire Department crews battle a blaze that broke out at San Francisco International Airport, seen on April 3, 2026.\u00a0(San Francisco Fire Department X social media)<\/p>\n<p>The fire was in the vicinity of 575 through 600 North McDonnell Road, the San Francisco Fire Department stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, there are no associated injuries, and there is no threat to the immediate public,\u201d the San Francisco fire agency said on its X account.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews also kept the blaze from expanding to nearby structures, according to the Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze didn\u2019t affect SFO\u2019s primary functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no impact to flight operations, but our AirTrain Blue Line was temporarily suspended, as the track runs over the area in question,\u201d said Doug Yakel, an airport spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>That AirTrain line serves the rental car center and long-term parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>The fire affected streets in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoadways in the area closed due to smoke,\u201d the San Francisco Fire Department stated.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze was under investigation on Friday, fire officials reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters battled a blaze at San Francisco International Airport on Friday, an incident that didn\u2019t affect flight operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4846,184,7,8,138,175,1533,181,100,395,182,1492,23505,101,103,603,102,397,104,106,105,94685],"class_list":{"0":"post-251639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-accidents","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-fires","14":"tag-keywee","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-peninsula","18":"tag-pm-report","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-san-bruno","21":"tag-san-francisco","22":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","23":"tag-san-francisco-international-airport","24":"tag-san-francisco-news","25":"tag-san-mateo-county","26":"tag-sf","27":"tag-sf-headlines","28":"tag-sf-news","29":"tag-social-alert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251639","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=251639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}