{"id":276867,"date":"2026-04-20T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276867\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:28:11","slug":"friday-house-fire-in-oakland-area-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276867\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday house fire in Oakland area under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Friday house fire in the Oakland neighborhood of northeast Topeka remains under investigation, officials said Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The blaze was reported around 1:15 p.m. Friday, April 17, at a two-story residence at 541 N.E. Grattan St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Upon arrival, Topeka Fire Department crews reported smoke coming from a second-floor bedroom. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A Friday house fire in the 500 block of N.E. Grattan in Topeka's Oakland neighborhood remained...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LBCRR6UUIJEA3OVLFYYHUIYAEY.jfif.jpeg\" width=\"980\" height=\"736\" \/>A Friday house fire in the 500 block of N.E. Grattan in Topeka&#8217;s Oakland neighborhood remained under investigation on Monday, officials said.(Eric Ives | Eric Ives)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and were able to contain it to the area of origin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were no occupants at home at the time of the fire. There were no reported injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Topeka Fire Department Investigation Unit responded to determine the cause and origin of the fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of Monday morning, the cause of the fire was under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Friday house fire in the Oakland neighborhood of northeast Topeka remains under investigation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3802,119691,143,145,144,26870],"class_list":{"0":"post-276867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-grattan","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news","13":"tag-topeka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276867","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=276867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}