{"id":182960,"date":"2026-03-08T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182960\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:40:24","slug":"workers-break-down-after-miami-dade-warehouse-fire-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182960\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers break down after Miami-Dade warehouse fire \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefighters continue to battle a fire at a Northwest Miami-Dade warehouse<\/a> that went up in flames on Thursday. Though lives were spared, workers and business owners now find themselves grieving for each other’s loss of livelihood. <\/p>\n

The flames\u00a0broke out before 11 a.m. Thursday,<\/a>\u00a0sending towers of thick black smoke into the sky, and crews have been attempting to put the fire out since.<\/p>\n

Officials said the structure located just east of Red Road and south of Florida’s Turnpike Extension is more than twice the size of a Costco warehouse and contains hazardous materials inside.<\/p>\n

“You couldn’t breathe in there,” Zayda, a worker who wore a bright shirt with the logo “Global Warehouse Solutions,” said in Spanish at the scene. “We were on our break and started to hear the alarms, and we thought it was a drill because they do drills all the time. And then another coworker came and said, ‘Get out, because the warehouse is burning.'”<\/p>\n

She wiped tears from her eyes as she told NBC6 she had worked at the warehouse for eight years.<\/p>\n

“We’ve worked for years in that warehouse, years. [I was scared for my life], for my coworkers’ lives,” she said. <\/p>\n

Benny Monci\u00f3n, who owns DBenny Saz\u00f3n, a food truck parked at the facility, was in tears when she spoke to NBC6 at the scene.<\/p>\n

She said a friend who also owns a truck called to tell her how he fared.<\/p>\n

“He called me just now, we were watching the news, and my truck was still intact, but his, the fire got it,” she said, her voice breaking as she put her head in her hand. “It burned it all up.”<\/p>\n

She said she wasn’t sure what had happened to her truck, which normally operates on 50 North University Drive in Pembroke Pines, as the fire raged.<\/p>\n

“I ask God that mine at least can be OK, but I feel so bad [that his didn’t make it], because these are hardworking people, looking to earn their daily living that in this country is so hard, and we have children, family,” Monci\u00f3n said. “It’s so many things.”<\/p>\n

More than 200 firefighters from both Broward and Miami-Dade counties have been fighting the blaze, which officials say could burn for days.<\/p>\n

“The owners are incredible people. I don’t know how something like this can happen to them,” another worker, Michael, said. “Apparently there was a short circuit, and a spark fell on one of the carpets we have, and that’s how the fire started. We tried to put it out, but it happened too fast.”<\/p>\n

Authorities have not confirmed that information. They say the cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters continue to battle a fire at a Northwest Miami-Dade warehouse that went up in flames on Thursday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[624,123,125,124,1064],"class_list":["post-182960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fires","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182960","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=182960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}