{"id":32775,"date":"2024-09-28T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32775"},"modified":"2024-09-28T06:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T11:14:25","slug":"truck-carrying-lithium-batteries-sparks-fire-and-snarls-operations-at-the-port-of-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32775","title":{"rendered":"Truck carrying lithium batteries sparks fire and snarls operations at the Port of Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LOS ANGELES &#8212;&nbsp;A Southern California bridge critical for getting goods to and from the Port of Los Angeles remained closed to traffic Friday after a big rig carrying lithium batteries overturned and sparked a fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The crash occurred before noon Thursday in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, TV station&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/vincent-thomas-bridge-remains-closed-due-to-crash-battery-fire-in-san-pedro\/\">KTLA-5 reported<\/a>. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Officials said the Vincent Thomas Bridge could stay closed into Saturday as they monitor the fire. Several terminals at the Port of Los Angeles were closed Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Firefighters decided to let the fire burn itself out because water &#8220;could be dangerous to the environment and actually water would not be effective,\u201d Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Adam Van Gerpen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/truck-carrying-lithium-batteries-sparks-fire-snarls-operations-114304559\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212;&nbsp;A Southern California bridge critical for getting goods to and from the Port of Los Angeles remained closed to traffic Friday after a big rig carrying lithium batteries overturned and sparked a fire. The crash occurred before noon Thursday in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, TV station&nbsp;KTLA-5 reported. No injuries were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[30617,2532],"class_list":["post-32775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-lithium-battery","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32777,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32775\/revisions\/32777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}