{"id":339541,"date":"2026-05-30T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339541\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:35:16","slug":"fire-destroys-building-used-to-store-oil-drilling-tools-in-signal-hill-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339541\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys building used to store oil-drilling tools in Signal Hill \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blaze in Signal Hill destroyed a storehouse holding tools for oil well drilling.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported shortly before 9:30 p.m. Thursday at a commercial building on Gardena Avenue, just west of Cherry Avenue and north of East 28th Street, said Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to the scene and spotted smoke coming from all sides of the structure, along with sparking power lines above, Torres said.<\/p>\n<p>While battling the blaze, the building\u2019s roof collapsed, Torres said, adding that crews were able to knock down the flames in a little over an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/29135937\/5-29-26-fire-80-039316-mmivr6ez-815379-A42YFj5C.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5-29-26-fire-80-039316-mmivr6ez-815379-A42YFj5C-1024x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184293\"  \/><\/a>The roof collapsed at a tool storehouse in Signal Hill, Friday, May 29, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n<p>A hazmat crew responded to the scene early Friday morning, Torres said. He did not have any information on what they were doing, but he said the building had been red-tagged.<\/p>\n<p>Signs on the building showed the storehouse belonged to Cavins Oil Well Tools, a company that provides tools for oil well drilling.<\/p>\n<p>Fire investigators were still looking into what sparked the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blaze in Signal Hill destroyed a storehouse holding tools for oil well drilling. The fire was reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-339541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339541","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=339541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}