{"id":258837,"date":"2026-04-21T02:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:55:07","slug":"firefighters-battle-large-fire-in-south-central-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258837\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle large fire in south-central El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) \u2014 UPDATE: An El Paso Fire Department spokesman said the fire was caused by arson and the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>A large fire was reported in south-central El Paso Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso Fire Department responded to a large fire on 1314 Magoffin around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso fire officials said the fire has since been updated to a condition 4. <\/p>\n<p>That condition determines the severity of the fire&#8217;s response, with condition 4 being the highest. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unknown if any injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said around 9:42 p.m. that the fire was under control.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Fire says that over 50 Firefighters responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>As well a Sun Metro Bus is being provided to residents that were affected, for the purpose of cooling and allowing a space to hydrate. <\/p>\n<p>As of 10:12 p.m. crews are continuing to cool hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) \u2014 UPDATE: An El Paso Fire Department spokesman said the fire was caused by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-258837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258837","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=258837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}