{"id":385835,"date":"2026-07-04T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:06:09","slug":"cars-parking-lot-set-ablaze-in-wilmington-fireworks-suspected-lafd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385835\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars, parking lot set ablaze in Wilmington \u2014 fireworks suspected, LAFD says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities are investigating a fire outside a Wilmington motel Friday night that may have been ignited by fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, fire crews found multiple cars engulfed in flames in a parking lot at 1104 W. Pacific Coast Hwy around 8:30 p.m. It was not immediately clear whether it was motel staff who alerted authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TV8TusKwBtg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aerial footage captured by CBS Los Angeles<\/a> shows two charred cars and a neighboring street taped off to the public.<\/p>\n<p>One person, described only as a male, was taken to a hospital in critical condition, according to fire officials. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation, an LAFD spokesperson said in a statement Friday night. However, it is believed that fireworks may have been the cause, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department said they are not able to provide further information Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are investigating a fire outside a Wilmington motel Friday night that may have been ignited by fireworks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[107034,6577,283,3813,358,3802,34920,24926,1583,8440,131,133,132,6024,63,133543,17428,17411],"class_list":["post-385835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-aerial-footage","tag-authority","tag-car","tag-cause","tag-critical-condition","tag-fire","tag-fire-official","tag-firework","tag-hospital","tag-lafd","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-fire-department","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-multiple-car","tag-parking-lot","tag-wilmington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385835","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=385835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}