{"id":347643,"date":"2026-06-23T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347643\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:26:10","slug":"firefighters-battled-large-fire-tuesday-at-organic-recycling-plant-off-i-20-and-287-in-forest-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347643\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battled large fire Tuesday at organic recycling plant off I-20 and 287 in Forest Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black smoke could be seen for miles as the fire burned at the plant.<\/p>\n<p>FOREST HILL, Texas \u2014 Black smoke could be seen for miles in Tarrant County as a fire burned at a recycling plant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Forest Hill Fire Department, crews were called at about 11:02 a.m. to a commercial structure fire at 4725 Forest Hill Circle, which is the site of an organic recycling plant.<\/p>\n<p>Aerials from WFAA&#8217;s chopper showed a fire raging as black smoke billows into the air along I-20 near 287.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officials say firefighters found a large warehouse engulfed in fire. With help from the Fort Worth Fire Department, Kennedale Fire Department, and the Tarrant County ESD 1 Fire Department, crews began a defensive attack to suppress the fire and prevent it from spreading further.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say firefighters were successful in containing the fire to the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County Fire Marshal Office investigated the fire and found it was caused by welding being done inside the building, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No one has been reported injured in the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black smoke could be seen for miles as the fire burned at the plant. FOREST HILL, Texas \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-347643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347643","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=347643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}