{"id":418739,"date":"2026-07-31T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:33:07","slug":"massive-fire-erupts-at-commercial-building-in-vernon-forcing-firefighters-into-defensive-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418739\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire erupts at commercial building in Vernon, forcing firefighters into defensive mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">VERNON, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A three-alarm fire erupted at a sprawling commercial building in Vernon, forcing firefighters into &#8220;defensive mode&#8221; as the flames continued to burn more than an hour after the blaze began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire began shortly before 3:30 p.m. at a structure in the 4600 block of Hampton Street, just southeast of the intersection of Pacific Boulevard and Santa Fe Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Flames shot through the roof of the single-story building amid heavy smoke as firefighters arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters on aerial ladders and on the ground attacked the flames with water from firehoses. The scene was about 4 miles southwest of the Lineage warehouse in Boyle Heights, were a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/lineage-files-permit-rebuild-cold-storage-facility-angering-boyle-heights-residents-city-leaders\/19599979\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">catastrophic fire broke out<\/a> on June 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No injuries were reported, and the Fire Department was able to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The firefight was ongoing as of 4:30 p.m., according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the fire was unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VERNON, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A three-alarm fire erupted at a sprawling commercial building in Vernon, forcing firefighters into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167447,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-418739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-167447","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\/418739","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=418739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}