{"id":360076,"date":"2026-06-14T05:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360076\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T05:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:12:19","slug":"unhealthy-air-quality-in-northern-california-city-as-huge-warehouse-fire-burns-for-3rd-day-the-press-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360076\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhealthy air quality in Northern California city as huge warehouse fire burns for 3rd day \u2013 The Press Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRACY, Calif. (AP) \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.<\/a><\/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.<\/a><\/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

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Smoke is seen from the massive fire at the Medline medical supply warehouse in Tracy, Calif., Friday, June 12, 2026. (Stephen Lam\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Smoke from a medical supply warehouse fire in Tracy, Calif., is seen from Livermore on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Santiago Mejia\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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This image from aerial video shows black smoke pouring into the sky from a fire at a medical equipment warehouse in Tracy, Calif., Thursday, June 11, 2026. (KGO via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Smoke is seen from the massive fire at the Medline medical supply warehouse a million-foot facility, in Tracy, Calif., Friday, June 12, 2026. (Stephen Lam\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Smoke is seen from the massive fire at the Medline medical supply warehouse in Tracy, Calif., Friday, June 12, 2026. (Stephen Lam\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)\n<\/p>\n

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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

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. (AP) \u2014 Officials in a Northern California city urged people sensitive to smoke to keep indoors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,100],"class_list":["post-360076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360076","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=360076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}