{"id":342692,"date":"2026-06-02T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342692\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:03:07","slug":"fire-at-south-los-angeles-american-legion-post-knocked-down-in-17-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342692\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at South Los Angeles American Legion Post Knocked Down in 17 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire at the Benjamin J Bowie American Legion Post in South Los Angeles was knocked down in 17 minutes Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Fire Department  firefighters were called  at 7:43 p.m. to 5115 S. Central Ave., between 51st and  52nd  streets, where the incident commander declared the blaze was knocked down at 8 p.m., said LAFD spokeswoman Jamie Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The post is named for a Black World War I private from Los Angeles who served in a segregated unit and was killed in France on Sept. 10, 1918, just over two months before the armistice ending the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire at the Benjamin J Bowie American Legion Post in South Los Angeles was knocked down in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[27463,683,3802,29537,48,52,51,65233,47,50,49,47635,5767,10809],"class_list":["post-342692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-american","tag-angeles","tag-fire","tag-knocked","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-legion","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-minutes","tag-post","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342692","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=342692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}