{"id":457807,"date":"2026-09-09T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457807\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:26:09","slug":"four-injured-in-welding-related-explosion-at-construction-site-in-arleta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457807\/","title":{"rendered":"Four injured in &#8216;welding-related&#8217; explosion at construction site in Arleta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four people were injured in a possible welding-related explosion at a construction site at 14265 W. Van Nuys Blvd. on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the incident at 3:24 p.m. and transported three people to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A fourth person was injured and declined transportation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the injured parties were construction workers or passersby.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopter footage captured by <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/san-fernando-valley-construction-site-explosion-sends-4-to-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KTLA News<\/a> showed a massive deployment of emergency vehicles along Van Nuys Boulevard, which was closed between Beachy and Canterbury avenues. Drivers are asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>The force of the explosion was strong enough to shatter some of the first- and second-floor windows of a nearby apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>The cause remains under investigation. A gas company, the L.A. Department of Water and Power and the L.A. Department of Transportation were also responding to the incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were injured in a possible welding-related explosion at a construction site at 14265 W. Van Nuys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[58886,180609,140838,76378,57334,12397,19925,4456,180611,94635,48,52,51,47,50,49,180610,180608,592,1967,646],"class_list":["post-457807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-arleta","tag-canterbury-avenue","tag-construction-site","tag-construction-worker","tag-emergency-vehicle","tag-explosion","tag-helicopter-footage","tag-incident","tag-injured-party","tag-l-a-department","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-massive-deployment","tag-passersby","tag-people","tag-transportation","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457807","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=457807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}