{"id":429949,"date":"2026-09-08T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429949\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:34:15","slug":"crews-knock-down-fire-at-military-surplus-store-in-east-el-paso-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429949\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews knock down fire at military surplus store in East El Paso, no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Fire crews extinguished a fire at a military surplus store Tuesday morning in East El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Fire Department, the fire was first reported at around 2:49 p.m. at the military surplus store located in the 11200 block of Pellicano Drive.<\/p>\n<p>EPFD said the first unit arrived around eight minutes after the first reports, at around 2:57 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>EPFD said a total of 13 units and 28 fire personnel responded to the incident. Also, drones were used to look at the fire from a higher vantage point in order to identify hotspots. <\/p>\n<p>EPFD added that after the fire was put out,  crews remained in the area extinguishing what are called &#8220;hot spots&#8221; until around 7: 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p><p>Fire crews knock down blaze in East El Paso on Pellicano Drive on September 8, 2026 (credit: KFOX14\/CBS4)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/police-called-to-suspicious-subject-report-at-north-loop-apartments-in-el-paso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police called to suspicious-subject report at North Loop Apartments in El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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 Fire crews extinguished a fire at a military surplus store Tuesday morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-429949","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\/429949","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=429949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}