{"id":146313,"date":"2026-01-23T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146313\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:45:17","slug":"multiple-cars-set-on-fire-in-series-of-possible-arson-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146313\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple cars set on fire in series of possible arson attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several vehicles were set on fire early Wednesday in San Jose in a possible arson case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials said nine vehicles were damaged across five locations between 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. near Highway 87 and West San Carlos Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The San Jose Fire Department\u2019s arson unit and police are investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; Several vehicles were torched in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Jose<\/a> early Wednesday in what officials are investigating as a possible arson case.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple fires reported<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The San Jose Fire Department said a series of vehicle fires broke out between 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. near Highway 87 and West San Carlos Street.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nine vehicles were damaged across five separate locations, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation ongoing<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire department\u2019s arson unit is investigating the incidents alongside San Jose police.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dig deeper<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surveillance video from El Camino Transmissions near one of the scenes showed a man, a possible suspect, setting two vehicles on fire before driving away. The incident occurred across the street from Fire Station 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story was written based on information from the San Jose Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Several vehicles were set on fire early Wednesday in San Jose in a possible arson case.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[72875,72874,11057,14766,88,16912,90,89,72873],"class_list":["post-146313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-arson-case","tag-arson-unit","tag-fire-department","tag-fire-officials","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-fire-department","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-west-san-carlos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146313","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=146313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}