{"id":459687,"date":"2026-09-10T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459687\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T19:34:08","slug":"san-jose-firefighters-extinguish-blaze-at-duplex-that-caused-roof-to-collapse-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459687\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose: Firefighters extinguish blaze at duplex that caused roof to collapse \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 Firefighters battled a two-alarm structure fire at a duplex on Thursday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze, which was called in just before 6 a.m., began in the attic of a structure on the 2900 block of Union Ave, according to a social media post from the San Jose Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7 a.m., firefighters had to withdraw from the structure\u2019s interior due to a collapsed roof, authorities said. They began conducting defensive maneuvers with aerial master streams.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters knocked down the blaze at 7:51 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>All residents safely evacuated from the building, authorities added. The utilities in the area were also secured.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was impacted in the area of the fire and authorities asked people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 Firefighters battled a two-alarm structure fire at a duplex on Thursday morning, authorities said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,1531,138,175,181,23,100,88,90,89,198,200,2442,2443],"class_list":["post-459687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-fires","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-south-bay-crime","tag-south-bay-fires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459687","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=459687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}