{"id":341600,"date":"2026-06-01T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341600\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:40:09","slug":"fire-tears-through-popular-jersey-shore-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341600\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Tears Through Popular Jersey Shore Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SURF CITY, NJ \u2014 A beloved Long Beach Island restaurant was damaged by a fire Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;While closing up the building after a wonderful Saturday night shift, a fire broke out,&#8221; Wally&#8217;s in Surf City shared on Facebook. <\/p>\n<p> The owners said that the cause of the fire is unknown. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We don&#8217;t know what caused it. We don&#8217;t know the extent of the damage. We don&#8217;t know when we will reopen. But we know that we WILL reopen,&#8221; the owners said. <\/p>\n<p> Surf City firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading. <\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-wallys-staff-after-the-fire?attribution_id=sl:2957f040-0cd9-4dc1-b88b-0d61ec7a2768&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1780237086&amp;utm_campaign=man_activity_shareassets_carousel_page&amp;utm_content=amp17_ta-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A GoFundMe<\/a> has been launched to support the restaurant&#8217;s staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every dollar raised through this GoFundMe will go directly to our staff to help bridge the gap until we are able to reopen our doors,&#8221; the fundraiser reads. &#8220;Whether it helps cover rent, groceries, bills, or simply gives someone a little breathing room during an uncertain time, it will make a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, the fundraiser has already raised more than $55,000 of its $100,000 goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURF CITY, NJ \u2014 A beloved Long Beach Island restaurant was damaged by a fire Saturday night. &#8220;While&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-341600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341600","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=341600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}