{"id":369755,"date":"2026-06-22T03:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369755\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T03:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:29:22","slug":"firefighters-battle-blaze-at-south-el-monte-shooting-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/369755\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle blaze at South El Monte shooting range"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Firefighters are battling a fire near a South El Monte shooting range that sparked Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A worker who answered the phone shortly after 1 p.m. at LA Clay Shooting Sports Park, 831 Rosemead Blvd., said workers were evacuating all customers from the property where the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Fire Department said on X that it responded to a fire in the nearby Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, and that as of 1:30 p.m., forward progress of the fire was contained at 10 acres. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple fire crews were working to contain it before it reached the surrounding vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>A short video posted on X showed a massive plume of smoke rising nine miles east of a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-06-21\/how-to-deal-with-smoke-health-effects-of-boyle-heights-cold-storage-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire at a Boyle Heights cold storage facility<\/a> that has been burning since Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials have not released any additional information on the South El Monte fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are battling a fire near a South El Monte shooting range that sparked Saturday afternoon. A worker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,9182,3802,149885,63,149886,2663,224,32571,149887,34331,146736,16030,149888,39803,4455],"class_list":["post-369755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-customer","tag-fire","tag-firefighter-battle-blaze","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-massive-plume","tag-mile","tag-p-m","tag-range","tag-rosemead-blvd","tag-saturday-afternoon","tag-short-video","tag-smoke","tag-social-medium-report","tag-south-el-monte","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369755","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=369755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}