FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno firefighters are working to put out a commercial vehicle fire involving an electric garbage truck that was reported just after noon on North Winery Avenue near Princeton Avenue.<\/p>\n
The driver reported hearing popping sounds and seeing smoke coming from the trash collection portion of the vehicle. <\/p>\n
Fresno Fire\u2019s Hazardous Materials Response Team responded to assist.<\/p>\n
Crews said gas readings detected at the scene were consistent with a lithium-ion battery fire, and firefighters suspect a battery may have been discarded in one of the waste receptacles collected by the truck.<\/p>\n
Firefighters faced additional challenges because the vehicle\u2019s design prevents the trash load from being dumped without power. <\/p>\n
Crews are working to identify an alternate method to access and fully extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n
Winery Avenue is closed between Princeton and Michigan avenues while firefighters continued working to safely mitigate the incident. <\/p>\n
Drivers are urged to avoid the area and use an alternate route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno firefighters are working to put out a commercial vehicle fire involving an electric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-432295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432295","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=432295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}