Houston firefighters were still working to contain a fire in the Harrisburg area coming from a pile of tires behind a recycling facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
First responders first got reports of a building fire around 2:49\u00a0p.m. at the intersection of Kellogg and Manchester streets and later discovered that the fire was coming from a pile of tires in a field near Buffalo Bayou. Houston Fire Chief Thomas\u00a0Mu\u00f1oz\u00a0said no injuries were reported and an evacuation or shelter in place was not needed during a Monday news conference broadcast by ABC13.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The agency’s arson division was on scene to investigate the nature of the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1oz said responders are monitoring air quality. As of 9 p.m., firefighters could still be seen working to put out the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No other information about the fire was immediately available.<\/p>\n
Houston meteorologist Matt Lanza took to X around 4:05 p.m. to report smoke could be seen on Houston’s Doppler radar.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston firefighters were still working to contain a fire in the Harrisburg area coming from a pile of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-346700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346700","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=346700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}