Officials asked residents who live within about 1\/4 mile from 6400 53rd Street to evacuate.<\/p>\n
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014 UPDATE:\u00a0The Pinellas Park Fire Department has contained the incident, and the evacuation order has been lifted for the immediate area. All residents are able to return to their residence.<\/p>\n
Crews with the Pinellas Park Fire Department are battling a large fire at a business Friday night. Police said they are also on scene to assist.<\/p>\n
The fire is in the area of 62nd Avenue and 53rd Street, officials say. Residents had initially noted a fog with an odor in the area.<\/p>\n
After arriving, crews reportedly found a storage unit with a plume of smoke coming from it. Fire rescue officials said the business contains chemicals that could be hazardous.<\/p>\n
Due to the nature of the contents on site, residents have been requested to evacuate if they live within about 1\/4 mile from 6400 53rd Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For residents who do not have anywhere to go, Pinellas Park officials said they are providing a safe area at the Broderick Recreation Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of Friday night, 62nd Avenue is closed between 58th Street and 49th Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials say one firefighter has been taken to the hospital and is stable.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials asked residents who live within about 1\/4 mile from 6400 53rd Street to evacuate. PINELLAS PARK, Fla.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-47734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47734","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=47734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}