{"id":346597,"date":"2026-06-23T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346597\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:39:08","slug":"crews-continue-to-battle-massive-fire-in-southeast-houston-for-several-hours-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346597\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews continue to battle massive fire in southeast Houston for several hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Residents watched a massive fire burn for hours Tuesday at a metal recycling facility, raising concerns about air quality as thick black smoke billowed over the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Victoria Delafuente said she woke from an afternoon nap around 3 p.m. to find the fire burning just outside her window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It&#8217;s very concerning for us in this neighborhood,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just praying everything is under control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Firefighters attacked the blaze from above as residents gathered to watch. While north winds appeared to help keep smoke away from their homes, some neighbors remained worried about potential health impacts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;My concern is my kids. My kid has asthma,&#8221; Tanya Gonzalez said. &#8220;All this black smoke. Thankfully, it&#8217;s up in the air.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents watched a massive fire burn for hours Tuesday at a metal recycling facility, raising concerns about air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[123509,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-346597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-123509","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346597","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=346597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}