{"id":146792,"date":"2026-02-01T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146792\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:10:29","slug":"channelview-fire-believed-to-be-source-of-strong-odor-reported-across-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146792\/","title":{"rendered":"Channelview fire believed to be source of ‘strong odor’ reported across Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HOUSTON – Houston Fire officials have determined what’s believed to be the source of a strong smell reported around the city.<\/p>\n

Strong smell in Houston <\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

The city fire department posted on social media that they’ve received reports of a “strong odor” in multiple parts of the city. Officials say reports of the smell have come near Montrose, Eastex, Bellaire, and a wide area inside the 610 loop.<\/p>\n

The fire department later determined<\/a> that the smell was coming from an overnight fire in the Channelview area.<\/p>\n

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According to the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office<\/a>, Channelview FD was been working a fire at a warehouse of tires and wheels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials say the fire started at 2 a.m. at a warehouse along the East Freeway close to Sheldon Road<\/a>. FOX 26 was present at the scene at about 10 a.m. as crews continued putting out the flames.<\/p>\n

Channelview FD tells FOX 26 that the fire was on the first and second floor of the warehouse.<\/p>\n

The fire has since been put out, and no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n

What we don’t know:<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n

The Source: Houston Fire Department, Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office, and Channelview Fire Department.<\/p>\n

Houston<\/a>Channelview<\/a>Harris County<\/a>Environment<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – Houston Fire officials have determined what’s believed to be the source of a strong smell reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30775,2327,7216,12597,405,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-146792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-channelview","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-galveston","11":"tag-galveston-county","12":"tag-harris-county","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146792","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=146792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}