{"id":185881,"date":"2026-03-10T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:46:32","slug":"seeing-smoke-in-tampa-fire-crews-are-battling-a-junkyard-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185881\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing smoke in Tampa? Fire crews are battling a junkyard blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hillsborough County fire crews are battling a two-alarm blaze at a junkyard in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was reported at 5404 24th Ave. S., near Palm River-Clair Mel, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue said in a news release. The fire sent up a massive plume of smoke that could be seen from miles away, according to social media posts.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4c22807f50085249020a55d84e140c6f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The news release did not say what caused the fire or whether any injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2fe723bc0a1abc6d787159dc6dbb2925.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Stay with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tampabay.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;tampabay.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">tampabay.com<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County fire crews are battling a two-alarm blaze at a junkyard in Tampa. The fire was reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22062,276,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-185881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fire-crews","9":"tag-hillsborough-county","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185881","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=185881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}