{"id":470689,"date":"2026-10-19T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:16:07","slug":"transformer-smoke-in-elevator-prompts-evacuation-of-el-paso-county-courthouse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470689\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformer smoke in elevator prompts evacuation of El Paso County Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso County Courthouse evacuated Monday morning after reports of smoke in the building. <\/p>\n<p>Information is limited at the moment, but the El Paso Fire Department has confirmed that people were asked to clear the building after reports of heavy smoke coming from one of the floors.<\/p>\n<p>EPFD first reported the smoke was coming from the 13th floor, but then corrected it to the 14th floor. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for EPFD said the smoke was coming from a transformer in one of the elevators and that it was first reported by maintenance crews inside the building. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 200 people were evacuated. <\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p>EPFD said that due to the nature of the incident, 17 units and over 50 personnel responded to the incident. <\/p>\n<p>EPFD said that as of 10:30 a.m., crews are still clearing the smoke and could not say when people will be able to go back in. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for updates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The El Paso County Courthouse evacuated Monday morning after reports of smoke in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-470689","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\/470689","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=470689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}