{"id":463145,"date":"2026-09-14T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463145\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:02:12","slug":"gunfire-erupts-as-authorities-respond-to-el-monte-house-fire-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463145\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire erupts as authorities respond to El Monte house fire \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person was hospitalized after gunfire erupted as authorities responded to a house fire in El Monte, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 7 p.m., Los Angeles County firefighters and El Monte police responded to a reported house fire in the 5100 block of Elrovia Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a man sitting in a chair in front of the home, armed with a firearm, authorities\u00a0said. Firefighters remained nearby while police worked to secure the area.<\/p>\n<p>An exchange of gunfire occurred at the home, according to the Fire Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Details about the shooting were not immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>El Monte police eventually secured the scene, allowing firefighters to move in and extinguish the blaze.One person was hospitalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not provide information about that person&#8217;s identity, condition or how the person was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was hospitalized after gunfire erupted as authorities responded to a house fire in El Monte, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25099,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-463145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-el-monte","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463145","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=463145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}