{"id":140210,"date":"2026-01-19T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140210\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:11:26","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-downtown-oakland-apartment-building-residents-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140210\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out at downtown Oakland apartment building; residents evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-alarm fire broke out at a multi-story apartment building in downtown Oakland Monday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7:15 a.m., the Oakland Fire Department said crews were responding to a three-alarm incident at the corner of 19th and Broadway. About 50 firefighters are on scene.<\/p>\n<p>A fire department spokesperson told CBS News Bay Area, that the building is being evacuated and that interior rescue operations were taking place.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Active 3 Alarm incident at residential building at the corner of 19th and Broadway (1700 block Broadway). Traffic blocked along Broadway between 17th and 20th. Approximately 50 firefighters on scene. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I4EEyoeKtJ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/I4EEyoeKtJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CQ0OEs7Nff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/CQ0OEs7Nff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oakland Fire Department (CA) (@OaklandFireCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OaklandFireCA\/status\/2013273233077018762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was not immediately known.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said traffic on Broadway is being blocked between 17th and 20th streets. Additional details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-alarm fire broke out at a multi-story apartment building in downtown Oakland Monday morning, officials said. Around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4318,3802,143,27296,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-140210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-apartment-fire","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-fire-department","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}