{"id":422994,"date":"2026-08-03T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422994\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:08:09","slug":"la-city-hall-closed-amid-hazardous-materials-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422994\/","title":{"rendered":"LA City Hall closed amid hazardous materials investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/n45gs3r6wprzttyl.jpg\" alt=\"Hazmat situation underway at LA City Hall \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/n45gs3r6wprzttyl.jpg\" alt=\"Hazmat situation underway at LA City Hall \" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-611a3d9b=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; Authorities said a hazmat situation is underway at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles after an unknown white substance was found inside the mail room near Mayor Karen Bass&#8217; office.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Los Angeles Police Department said the incident was reported at 12:05 p.m. at the building located in the 100 block of Main Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LA City Fire added that the substance was found inside a sealed bag. One person was evaluated at the scene and did not require hospitalization after first responders determined they were not exposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;A suspicious envelope containing an unknown substance was found in a mail room near the Mayor\u2019s office. LAFD and LAPD are investigating. City Hall is closed to the public for the time being,&#8221; Mayor Bass&#8217; said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This is a breaking news story. FOX 11 will provide more updates as they become available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/la-los-angeles-county\/dtla\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown LA<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; Authorities said a hazmat situation is underway at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,6858,48,52,6086,51,47,137,50,49,100,1181],"class_list":["post-422994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-dtla","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-los-angeles-county","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422994","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=422994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}