{"id":149359,"date":"2026-02-09T22:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149359\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:29:49","slug":"massive-cloud-of-smoke-over-jacksonville-coming-from-recycling-plant-fire-jfrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149359\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive cloud of smoke over Jacksonville coming from recycling plant fire: JFRD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department spokesperson says crews are responding to a fire at a recycling center near West Beaver Street and Acorn Street.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A massive cloud of smoke visible over Jacksonville is coming from a fire at a recycling facility, according to a Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke and flames could be seen coming from the Smurfit Westrock facility located on West Beaver Street.<\/p>\n<p>A Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office spokesperson said it was on scene to assist the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b35b0ec2-02ce-4ee2-826d-0b83376f72da_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b35b0ec2-02ce-4ee2-826d-0b83376f72da_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. As of a call shortly after 4:30 p.m., the fire rescue spokesperson said no one had been transported from the scene due to injuries and there were no active evacuation orders.<\/p>\n<p>First Coast News is on scene working to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing situation.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bf98e2ce-78a9-4857-90d5-5e4b5d3e67f2_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bf98e2ce-78a9-4857-90d5-5e4b5d3e67f2_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department spokesperson says crews are responding to a fire at a recycling center near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-149359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}