{"id":457719,"date":"2026-09-09T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457719\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T00:50:11","slug":"arleta-construction-site-explosion-leaves-several-hurt-lafd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457719\/","title":{"rendered":"Arleta construction site explosion leaves several hurt: LAFD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788915011_407_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-b05d485a=\"\"\/>      <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; An explosion at a San Fernando Valley construction site left several people hurt in Arleta.<\/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 Fire Department responded to a call of a possible welding-related explosion at a street construction site in the 14200 block of West Van Nuys Boulevard in Arleta.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident left two people needing to be taken to the hospital. Two other people were looked at by emergency crews, but both declined hospital transports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">As of 3:30 p.m., LAFD said there is &#8220;no escalation of hazard&#8221; beyond the construction site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LADOT, LADWP, local gas company, and LAPD were at the scene to help paramedics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story used information provided by the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/los-angeles\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/la-los-angeles-county\/arleta\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arleta<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; An explosion at a San Fernando Valley construction site left several people hurt in Arleta.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[58886,1184,48,52,6086,51,47,137,50,49,100,1181],"class_list":["post-457719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arleta","tag-ca","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\/457719","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=457719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}