{"id":331772,"date":"2026-05-25T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:42:12","slug":"tire-recycling-center-fire-sends-plume-of-dark-smoke-over-south-gate-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331772\/","title":{"rendered":"Tire recycling center fire sends plume of dark smoke over South Gate \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First responders knocked down a fire at a tire recycling center in South Gate that sent a large plume of dark smoke over the surrounding area and prompted a shelter-in-place order Sunday, May 24.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded around 2:15 p.m. to the 11800 block of Industrial Avenue, where a single-story industrial building was fully engulfed in flames, said Capt. Aaron Katon with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Authorities later learned it was a tire recycling center.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported and no evacuations were ordered as firefighters battled the blaze.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RPE-L-FIRE-0525-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in the 11800 block of Industrial Avenue in South Gate. (Photo by Tom Bray\/Southern California News Group)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A fire at an industrial building in the 11800 block...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LPT-L-FIRE-0525-01-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LPT-L-FIRE-0525-01-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire at an industrial building in the 11800 block of Industrial Avenue in South Gate caused a plume of dark smoke that could be seen across the region. (Photo by Tom Bray\/Southern California News Group)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RPE-L-FIRE-0525-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RPE-L-FIRE-0525-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in the 11800 block of Industrial Avenue in South Gate. (Photo by Tom Bray\/Southern California News Group)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RPE-L-FIRE-0525-01.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RPE-L-FIRE-0525-01.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in the 11800 block of Industrial Avenue in South Gate. (Photo by Tom Bray\/Southern California News Group)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RPE-L-FIRE-0525-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RPE-L-FIRE-0525-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in the 11800 block of Industrial Avenue in South Gate. (Photo by Tom Bray\/Southern California News Group))\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 5<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled an industrial building fire Sunday, May 24, in the 11800 block of Industrial Avenue in South Gate. (Photo by Tom Bray\/Southern California News Group)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the South Gate Police Department issued a temporary shelter-in-place order for the surrounding community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople and pets should stay indoors with doors and windows closed,\u201d County Supervisor Janice Hahn said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from the fire could be seen in region including in Paramount and Compton.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First responders knocked down a fire at a tire recycling center in South Gate that sent a large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,138,3802,131,133,132,137,100,1492,4183,136],"class_list":["post-331772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-fire","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-south-gate","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331772","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=331772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}