{"id":239873,"date":"2026-03-27T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239873\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:10:08","slug":"oakland-firefighters-save-beloved-mexican-restaurant-from-arson-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239873\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland firefighters save beloved Mexican restaurant from arson fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early-morning arson fire that severely damaged a business in Oakland was put out before it spread to a beloved Mexican restaurant in the city&#8217;s Fruitvale District, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Fire Department said crews responded at about 2:47 a.m. to the fire at a building at the corner of E. 10th Street and Fruitvale Avenue. The fire was coming from an insurance agency housed in a two-story building that also houses Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant, which owns the building.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Overnight, starting at 2:45 AM Friday morning, Oakland Fire Crews successfully prevented a fire inside an insurance agency in the Fruitvale neighborhood from gutting a beloved restaurant. An arson investigation is now open and underway. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oaklandfire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#oaklandfire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oaklandfirefighters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#oaklandfirefighters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OFD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#OFD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bqQDEFTZaU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/bqQDEFTZaU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oakland Fire Department (CA) (@OaklandFireCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OaklandFireCA\/status\/2037506921427824923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images provided by the Fire Department showed the insurance agency was severely damaged, but firefighters were able to prevent the fire from causing any damage to the restaurant, a decades-long fixture of the Fruitvale neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire was controlled by about 3 a.m., and fire crews left by 4:30 a.m. The department said the investigation almost immediately revealed an incendiary cause, and an arson investigation was underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. A damage assessment was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An early-morning arson fire that severely damaged a business in Oakland was put out before it spread to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7218,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-239873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arson","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239873","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=239873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}