{"id":202686,"date":"2026-03-23T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202686\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:22:08","slug":"junkyard-car-fire-causing-massive-plume-of-smoke-west-of-downtown-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202686\/","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard car fire causing massive plume of smoke west of Downtown Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A JFRD spokesperson said multiple vehicles were on fire at a junkyard on West Beaver Street on Jacksonville&#8217;s Westside<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A multi-car junkyard fire on Jacksonville&#8217;s Westside caused a massive plume of black smoke visible from Downtown and much of I-10\/I-295 Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson with the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department told First Coast News\u00a0multiple cars were on fire at a junkyard on the 6600 block of West Beaver Street after the smoke was spotted on tower cameras around 12:40 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>JFRD officials said crews were on their way to the scene.\u00a0First Coast News\u00a0is also sending a crew to the scene to gather more information.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d2981a11-54c5-4153-b6b1-d398f1b583a6_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d2981a11-54c5-4153-b6b1-d398f1b583a6_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. We will update this article with more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A JFRD spokesperson said multiple vehicles were on fire at a junkyard on West Beaver Street on Jacksonville&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-202686","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\/202686","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=202686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}