{"id":807643,"date":"2026-08-09T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:40:10","slug":"garbage-fire-at-waste-management-facility-outside-hillsboro-sparks-brush-fire-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807643\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage fire at waste management facility outside Hillsboro sparks brush fire nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBORO, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A garbage fire broke out Saturday afternoon at the Waste Management facility outside of Hillsboro, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was initially reported at about 4:30 p.m. at the facility off of SE Minter Bridge Road.<\/p>\n<p>Tualatin Valley Fire &amp; Rescue said its crews have a line around the trash fire and they&#8217;re working to extinguish the blaze. There were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Embers from the garbage fire kicked up and sparked a brush fire in an adjacent field. Firefighters are now working to extinguish the second fire which started south of the dump.<\/p>\n<p>Images on social media showed large columns of smoke rising from the area near the waste facility.<\/p>\n<p>People are being asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; updates will be posted as information comes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBORO, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A garbage fire broke out Saturday afternoon at the Waste Management facility outside of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-807643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}