{"id":418503,"date":"2026-07-30T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418503\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:59:10","slug":"firefighters-rescue-trapped-driver-after-flatbed-truck-slams-into-building-in-pacific-palisades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418503\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rescue trapped driver after flatbed truck slams into building in Pacific Palisades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 30, 2026 8:52PM<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters rescued a driver who was trapped inside the cab of a flatbed truck after the vehicle slammed into a building in Pacific Palisades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Firefighters on Thursday rescued a driver who was trapped inside the cab of a flatbed truck after the vehicle slammed into a building in Pacific Palisades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The single-vehicle crash was reported about 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Chautauqua Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The truck was on Chautauqua Boulevard at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Crews worked to free the driver, the truck&#8217;s only occupant, before he was removed from the cab, placed in an ambulance and transported to a hospital. His condition was unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No one was inside the building when it was struck, according to LAFD spokeswoman Jennifer Middleton.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/19602912_truck_crash.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Los Angeles police and the city departments of Building and Safety and Transportation were summoned to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the crash was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 30, 2026 8:52PM Firefighters rescued a driver who was trapped inside the cab of a flatbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167375,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-418503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-167375","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418503","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=418503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}