{"id":334859,"date":"2026-06-13T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:30:24","slug":"cbp-officers-in-el-paso-rescue-five-people-from-hazardous-lime-scale-rail-cars-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/334859\/","title":{"rendered":"CBP officers in El Paso rescue five people from hazardous lime scale rail cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in El Paso rescued five people found hiding inside rail cars filled with hazardous powder, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBP, the group included a 28-year-old mother and her 12-year-old son who were trying to enter the U.S. without inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found them inside rail cars containing lime scale powder, which CBP said can cause respiratory distress, chemical burns, or death.<\/p>\n<p>CBP said all five people were medically cleared, given access to showers, and allowed to recover.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue was shared on social media, where CBP officers urged the public to report suspicious activity near railways or border areas. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-police-rescue-underway-at-rio-grande-canal?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso police: rescue underway at Rio Grande canal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in El Paso rescued five people found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-334859","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\/334859","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=334859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}