{"id":131248,"date":"2026-01-21T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:48:07","slug":"car-being-crushed-at-socorro-junkyard-caught-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131248\/","title":{"rendered":"Car being crushed at Socorro junkyard caught fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update (6:30 PM): Socorro Police officials say that the fire happened at EP Crushers of El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived to find that employees of the junkyard had been crushing a car when it caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While workers attempted to isolate and control the initial fire at the front of the property, a secondary fire ignited in the rear area where the vehicle crushing operations were taking place,&#8221; El Paso Police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) says that all lanes of Alameda are closed at Passmore due to a fire.<\/p>\n<p>An alert on the TXDOT alert map classifies the incident as a car fire. This is happening in Socorro.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was first reported at 4:47 p.m., according to TXDOT.<\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 will update this story when new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update (6:30 PM): Socorro Police officials say that the fire happened at EP Crushers of El Paso. Officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-131248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}