{"id":409607,"date":"2010-03-09T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a91de351970b"},"modified":"2010-03-09T22:25:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T03:25:22","slug":"firefighters-knock-down-stubborn-blaze-in-south-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409607","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters knock down stubborn blaze in South L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 150 firefighters battled a huge commercial blaze Tuesday night in South Los Angeles for nearly an hour before beating back the flames.<\/p>\n<p>The building at <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/mapping-la\/neighborhoods\/neighborhood\/harvard-park\/?q=1753+slauson+avenue&amp;lat=33.9891494&amp;lng=-118.3084421\" >1753 E. Slauson Ave.<\/a> in Harvard Park was fully engulfed by flames, which a roof to partially collapse and electrical wires to come down, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Units knocked down the blaze about 7:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was so fierce that units at the scene were forced to retreat to a defensive position as thick dark smoke billowed from the blaze and flames shot into the evening sky, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage shot by news helicopters showed wooden pallets burning at the site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 150 firefighters battled a huge commercial blaze Tuesday night in South Los Angeles for nearly an hour before beating back the flames. The building at 1753 E. Slauson Ave. in Harvard Park was fully engulfed by flames, which a roof to partially collapse and electrical wires to come down, the Los Angeles Fire Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}