{"id":97848,"date":"2025-08-26T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97848\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:26:13","slug":"fire-badly-damages-newly-installed-mt-diablo-high-school-football-fields-turf-in-concord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97848\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire badly damages newly-installed Mt. Diablo High School football field&#8217;s turf in Concord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KGO logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/origin-kgo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 26, 2025 7:09PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Concord high school's new football field damaged by fire\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire caused significant damage to a newly-installed turf football field at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; A fire caused significant damage to a newly-installed turf football field at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Concord police and Contra Costa fire officials were called to the school for a report of a fire Sunday morning. The fire was extinguished, but the football field was significantly damaged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SKY7 is over fire damage on the turf football field at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/17654883_082625-kgo-turf-burn-2-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SKY7 is over fire damage on the turf football field at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>KGO-TV<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Surveillance footage reportedly showed several people, possibly juveniles, setting off fireworks on the field the night before, which may or not may not have led to the fire, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators are working to identify the people responsible. Anyone with information is asked to contact Concord Police Department Detective Lee Lawrence at (925) 671-3234.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC7 News reporter Leslie Brinkley will have more on the story tonight starting at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, August 26, 2025 7:09PM A fire caused significant damage to a newly-installed turf football field at Mt.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[71764,64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-97848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-71764","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97848","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=97848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}