{"id":351911,"date":"2026-06-08T18:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351911\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:47:13","slug":"large-trash-fire-near-l-a-river-homeless-encampment-sends-smoke-across-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351911\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Trash Fire Near L.A. River Homeless Encampment Sends Smoke Across Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1678-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Large Trash Fire Near L.A. River Homeless Encampment Sends Smoke Across Long Beach\" data-attachment-id=\"31613\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.longbeachlocalnews.com\/2026\/06\/08\/large-trash-fire-near-l-a-river-homeless-encampment-sends-smoke-across-long-beach\/img_1678\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1678-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1780913928&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00011100011100011&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1678\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.longbeachlocalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1678-scaled.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long Beach Fire battled a large trash and brush fire in Long Beach Monday morning that sent thick black smoke into the sky, visible for miles across the area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"31613\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.longbeachlocalnews.com\/2026\/06\/08\/large-trash-fire-near-l-a-river-homeless-encampment-sends-smoke-across-long-beach\/img_1678\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1678-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1780913928&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00011100011100011&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1678\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.longbeachlocalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1678-scaled.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1678-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31613\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire was reported around 9:40 a.m. along the Los Angeles River between Pacific Coast Highway and Anaheim Street. The fire started near a large homeless encampment along the river, where several fires have been reported in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780944433_701_0d2836024d9b92481a6afd113eaad8494e091bfe95ddb476084317f602a128dd.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\tPost navigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach Fire battled a large trash and brush fire in Long Beach Monday morning that sent thick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-351911","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\/351911","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=351911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}