{"id":157449,"date":"2026-01-31T02:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:23:11","slug":"vacant-building-in-west-san-jose-goes-up-in-flames-impacting-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157449\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacant building in West San Jose goes up in flames, impacting traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters rushed out to West San Jose Friday evening to battle a fire at a vacant two-story building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews said the third-alarm fire is at a structure near Saratoga Avenue and Lawrence Expressway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the scene show a building in the Kato Business Square producing black smoke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/g-9gu6maeaa6xgr.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"g-9gu6maeaa6xgr.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                San Jose Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is impacted in the area as crews battle the fire. People are urged to avoid the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saratoga Avenue is closed in both directions between Prospect Road and Lawrence Expressway, crews said. Lawrence Expressway is shut down at Saratoga Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unknown what started the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters rushed out to West San Jose Friday evening to battle a fire at a vacant two-story building.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,88,16700,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-157449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-fire","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157449","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=157449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}