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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nCrews were at the scene of a medical call shortly after 6 p.m. when their battalion chief noticed a black smoke column off Main Street. The battalion chief notified dispatch of the smoke and arrived at the scene of the scrapyard fire minutes later. He then immediately requested extra units to respond to the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n
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No injuries were reported in the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is now investigating the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) crews responded to a large scrapyard fire off Main Street in Lakeland Saturday night. Crews were at the scene of a medical call shortly after… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDJcL2ltZ19wY2ZyX2xha2VsYW5kX3NjcmFweWFyZF9maXJlXzJfMTRfMjZfMTAwLXNjYWxlZC53ZWJwP2ZpdD03NjglMkMxMDI0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiUG9sayBDb3VudHkgRmlyZSBSZXNjdWUgUmVzcG9uZHMgdG8gTGFrZWxhbmQgU2NyYXB5YXJkIEZpcmUiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.Hn9dTlALHskl2BPGk2J87VKXN2xZCwCV9Pw5BTvX4XsMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":62580,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_pcfr_lakeland_scrapyard_fire_2_14_26_100-scaled.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[13643],"class_list":["post-62576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-county-fire-rescue-responds-to-lakeland-scrapyard-fire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62582,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62576\/revisions\/62582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_pcfr_lakeland_scrapyard_fire_2_14_26_100-768x1024.webp?resize=768%2C1024&ssl=1\")
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