{"id":402909,"date":"2026-07-18T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402909\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:37:08","slug":"fires-break-out-inside-garbage-trucks-in-san-jose-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402909\/","title":{"rendered":"Fires break out inside garbage trucks in San Jose \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium-ion batteries are believed to be responsible for a series of recent fires inside garbage trucks in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Fire Department said there have been four garbage truck fires in the last month alone, with the latest occurring on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know when lithium batteries are crushed or damaged, they can release sparks which can ignite materials around them, which then when they&#8217;re placed in the collection trucks can ignite the materials and cause fires,&#8221; Integrated Waste Management Deputy Director Judy Erlandson said.<\/p>\n<p>When a fire breaks out in a garbage truck, the driver has to dump the debris onto the street so firefighters can extinguish the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose leaders said no battery of any kind should ever go into a garbage or recycling bin. The Santa Clara County Household Hazardous Waste Program safely recycles lithium-ion batteries for residents who make an appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lithium-ion batteries are believed to be responsible for a series of recent fires inside garbage trucks in San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-402909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402909","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=402909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}