{"id":185901,"date":"2026-03-10T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:58:10","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-recycling-facility-in-tampa-hcfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185901\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out at recycling facility in Tampa: HCFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vlcsnap-2026-03-10-12h10m21s604.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> Fire Rescue says they have put out a junkyard fire that broke out Tuesday morning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Crews responded to Mega Auto Recycling at 5404 24th Avenue South after multiple 911 calls came in.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vlcsnap-2026-03-10-12h09m44s854.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">HCFR Public Information Officer Rob Herrin says that fire crews arrived at 10:45 a.m. to heavy smoke and heavy flames but they contained the fire within an hour.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">&#8220;These scrapyard fires, these junkyard fires, as we have seen in the past, can be hours long, sometimes even days-long events, so we are happy that this one was right around the hour mark,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Herrin confirmed that there were no injuries to firefighters or civilians.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Herrin says that it is not clear what caused the fire to initially spark.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/fire\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Hillsborough County Fire Rescue says they have put out a junkyard fire that broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[855,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-185901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-hillsborough","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185901","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=185901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}