{"id":70163,"date":"2025-12-03T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70163\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:21:09","slug":"orange-county-fire-crews-respond-to-orlandos-lockheed-martin-facility-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70163\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County fire crews respond to Orlando&#8217;s Lockheed Martin facility: what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Fire crews responded to Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Orlando facility on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-03-153147.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Fire crews responded to Lockheed Martin on Sand Lake Road on Dec. 3, 2025. (Source: SKYFOX) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Multiple fire trucks responded to Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Orlando facility on Sand Lake Road on Dec. 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/screenshot-2025-12-03-153132.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Fire crews responded to Lockheed Martin on Sand Lake Road on Dec. 3, 2025. (Source: SKYFOX) <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Officials did not verify what the response was for. In aerial footage captured by SKYFOX Wednesday afternoon, firefighters were seen walking around a building at the facility and spraying down people in silver reflective suits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews responded to Lockheed Martin on Sand Lake Road on Dec. 3, 2025. (Source: SKYFOX) <\/p>\n<p>   Lockheed Martin responds <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">In a statement to FOX 35, a Lockheed Martin spokesperson said, &#8220;We are aware of the situation at our Sand Lake Road facility and are working closely with local officials. The impacted area has been evacuated, and all employees are safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">It&#8217;s not known if there were any injuries from the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Who is Lockheed Martin?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Lockheed Martin is an aeronautics and global defense technology company, that commissions technology and weapons systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. federal government agencies. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The company&#8217;s history <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/en-us\/news\/features\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dates back to 1912<\/a>. With headquarters in Bethesda, MD and its Orlando location was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.orlando.org\/blog\/lockheed-martins-history-in-orlando\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">built in 1957<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">On Dec. 3, Lockheed Martin also opened a Hypersonics System Integration Lab at its Huntsville, Alabama facility \u2013 dedicated to delivering rapid, reliable solutions to defense partners, the company said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lockheedmartin.com\/2025-12-3-Lockheed-Martin-Opens-17,000-Square-Foot-System-Integration-Lab-for-Hypersonic-Capabilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">press release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">After its one-year construction and $17.1 million in capital investment, the Hypersonics System Integration Lab advances hypertonic technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">&#8220;Hypersonic weapons, capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound, have become a central pillar of that modernization effort,&#8221; the press release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was sourced from a statement to FOX 35 and a Lockheed Martin press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\/orlando\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Fire crews responded to Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Orlando facility on Wednesday.\u00a0 Fire crews responded to Lockheed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-70163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70163","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=70163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}