{"id":359640,"date":"2026-06-13T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359640\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:24:13","slug":"unhealthy-air-quality-in-california-city-as-huge-warehouse-fire-burns-for-3rd-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359640\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhealthy air quality in California city as huge warehouse fire burns for 3rd day"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRACY, Calif. \u2014 Officials in a Northern California city urged people sensitive to smoke to keep indoors as firefighters spent a third day Saturday battling a fire in a huge medical equipment warehouse.<\/p>\n

Air quality on the south side of Tracy, a city of 100,000 people where the Medline warehouse fire has been burning since Thursday, was in the \u201cunhealthy\u201d range, according to air monitors. <\/p>\n

Firefighters expected the next few days to remain smoky amid a lengthy effort to put out the fire inside the building, South San Joaquin County Fire Authority Fire Chief Randall Bradley said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The local fire marshal was investigating, and officials are meeting with company representatives, structural engineers and others to assess the building, Bradley said.<\/p>\n

Plans were being made for employees to retrieve their vehicles from the site. Meanwhile, firefighters urged people to avoid the area and not touch or move debris from the fire. <\/p>\n

Medline is a major provider of medical-surgical products such as latex gloves, masks and surgical instruments.<\/p>\n

The blaze at the 1 million-square-foot (93,000-square-meter) warehouse about 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) east of San Francisco sent embers flying for miles.<\/p>\n

\"Smoke<\/p>\n

Smoke from a medical supply warehouse fire in Tracy, Calif., is seen from Livermore on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Credit: AP\/Santiago Mejia<\/p>\n

Poorly functioning sprinklers and hydrants with little to no flow hindered firefighter efforts. The problem appeared to be with the facility\u2019s fire-suppression system and not city water supplies, they said.<\/p>\n

No issues were found when an outside company tested the sprinkler system in January, firefighters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRACY, Calif. \u2014 Officials in a Northern California city urged people sensitive to smoke to keep indoors as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3562,387,7,9,8,3563],"class_list":["post-359640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ap-a-wire","tag-business","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359640","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=359640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}