{"id":457501,"date":"2026-09-08T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:28:47","slug":"chemical-leak-at-la-habra-neighborhood-prompts-shelter-in-place-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457501\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical leak at La Habra neighborhood prompts shelter-in-place notice"},"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\/09\/1788899326_330_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:21PM<\/p>\n<p>Stream Southern California&#8217;s News Leader and Original Shows 24\/7<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LA HABRA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Emergency crews are on scene of a reported chemical leak in a La Habra neighborhood as nearby residents are being asked to shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident was reported at about 12 p.m. in the 500 block of South Cypress Street. Responding firefighters saw smoke showing from a one-story commercial building, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video from the scene shows a yellow plume of smoke coming from the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was not immediately known if there were any injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">La Habra Mayor Jos\u00e9 Medrano <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JoseMedranoLHCityCouncil\/posts\/pfbid0EJxySKC9de4gXgUDHmnTbx1k4oUnJVGr2fb1vUhYtnLck4kz3KcuM4Uszh5CK221l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted on Facebook<\/a> that it appears the chemical leak has been contained but nearby residents are still being asked to shelter in place until further notice.<\/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\/09\/19807081_hazmat-leak.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire department said all initial evacuation orders were downgraded to an advisory and authorities shortened the distance around the area under the advisory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No further details were immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This is a developing story. This article will continue to be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:21PM Stream Southern California&#8217;s News Leader and Original Shows 24\/7 LA HABRA, Calif. (KABC)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[180530,163,165,164],"class_list":["post-457501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-180530","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457501","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=457501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}