FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno County Elections Warehouse was evacuated Thursday after equipment from a nearby county facility started releasing smoke.<\/p>\n
According to Fresno County Clerk\/Registrar of Voters James A. Kus, the warehouse at 4525 E. Hamilton Avenue was evacuated after an Uninterrupted Power Supply device in a nearby facility was found smoking and potentially releasing harmful gases.<\/p>\n
The Fresno Fire Department ordered everyone to evacuate the facility for the remainder of the day as a precaution.<\/p>\n
Officials said no employees were hurt during the evacuation. <\/p>\n
The elections warehouse was fully secured with assistance from the Fresno Fire Department before staff left the building.<\/p>\n
The evacuation has delayed a planned election results update for the June 2 Consolidated Primary Election. <\/p>\n
The update, originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon, will now be released before 10 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n
County officials also expect employees to return the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno County Elections Warehouse was evacuated Thursday after equipment from a nearby county…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-356892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356892","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=356892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}