{"id":419804,"date":"2026-01-17T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419804\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:41:07","slug":"norfolk-fire-crews-swiftly-contain-brush-fire-behind-rugby-street-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419804\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk fire crews swiftly contain brush fire behind Rugby Street homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters swiftly contained an unexpected brush fire behind homes on Rugby Street.<\/p>\n<p>NORFOLK, Va. \u2014 Crews responded to a reported structure fire in the 900 block of Rugby Street Saturday afternoon but instead found an outdoor brush fire burning in a wooded area behind several homes, according to Norfolk Fire-Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were dispatched at 1:03 p.m. and deployed two hose lines to contain the flames. The fire was quickly extinguished within 15 minutes, preventing it from spreading to nearby homes.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said no homes were damaged and no one was injured. Fire marshals are investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters swiftly contained an unexpected brush fire behind homes on Rugby Street. NORFOLK, Va. \u2014 Crews responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-419804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}