A fire broke out in East Oakland early Friday, and officials quickly suspected it to be an act of arson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fire crews were called at around 2:47 a.m. to a blaze burning at 1001 Fruitvale Ave.<\/p>\n
Firefighters extinguished the flames within 11 minutes, and found evidence that someone tried to burn the place down, Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Michael Hunt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigators are in possession of what they believe to be the primary device used to ignite the fire,\u201d Hunt said, though he would not elaborate on the type of device.<\/p>\n
The fire appeared to have originated at an insurance business next door to the Guadalajara restaurant, Hunt said. The Fruitvale Avenue building is near San Leandro Street and not far from the Fruitvale BART station.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was no damage to the restaurant and the blaze was contained to the insurance business, Hunt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The arson suspect was at large, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out in East Oakland early Friday, and officials quickly suspected it to be an act…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-239240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239240","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=239240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}