{"id":26955,"date":"2025-10-28T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/26955\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:04:07","slug":"fire-damages-vacant-west-oakland-school-building-near-de-fremery-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/26955\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damages vacant West Oakland school building near De Fremery Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oakland-fire-cng-442-ktvueme003_04_42_15_mpg_00.00.00.00.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">The blaze broke out around 5 a.m. on 18th Street near De Fremery Park. Oct. 28, 2025\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; \u00a0A fire badly damaged a vacant building in West Oakland early Tuesday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The blaze broke out around 5 a.m. on 18th Street near De Fremery Park. Fire crews arrived to find flames shooting from the structure, which appeared to be the former Ralph Bunche Academy \u2014 a school that the Oakland Unified School District closed several years ago.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Firefighters were able to bring the flames under control within about 30 minutes. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Authorities said the site, which has fallen into disrepair, has caught fire before. The cause of the latest blaze remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officials are working to determine what sparked the fire and whether anyone had been inside the building at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The blaze broke out around 5 a.m. on 18th Street near De Fremery Park. Oct. 28, 2025\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-26955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26955","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=26955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}