{"id":403849,"date":"2026-08-11T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403849\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:26:08","slug":"recycling-facility-fire-under-investigation-in-south-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403849\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling facility fire under investigation in south Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters were working to extinguish a fire at a recycling facility Tuesday in south Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were initially dispatched for a trash fire, but the response was upgraded after they arrived. About 26 units and additional support personnel responded, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHFD Hazardous Materials personnel and representatives from CIMA and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are on scene conducting air quality monitoring,\u201d the department said in a 10:44 a.m. post. \u201cAt this time, no environmental concerns have been identified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the HFD Arson Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Chronicle reached out to the fire department for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters were working to extinguish a fire at a recycling facility Tuesday in south Houston. Crews were initially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-403849","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\/403849","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=403849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}