{"id":506347,"date":"2026-10-24T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506347\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:22:15","slug":"more-than-20-cars-torched-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506347\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 20 cars torched in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/er32s7swga4jdgrp.jpg\" alt=\"More than 20 cars torched in San Jose carport\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/er32s7swga4jdgrp.jpg\" alt=\"More than 20 cars torched in San Jose carport\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-fab1b86c=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; A total of 24 cars were torched in San Jose after a carport caught on fire, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>   More than 20 cars on fire <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The San Jose Fire Department said their crews were called out Friday about 2 a.m. to the New Horizon Condominiums in the 200 block of Shadow Run Drive to put out a car fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">When they arrived, they saw two dozen cars and the carport was on fire.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;m telling my mom there&#8217;s a fire, and it&#8217;s like Hell,&#8221; said Hanna, a victim of the fire. &#8220;Like it literally looked like Hell. It was terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Nobody was injured and nothing else was damaged, other than the cars.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Firefighters put on the fire about 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The fire department did not say what they thought caused the fire. Firefighters said they were trying to see if the fire was intentionally set.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">One resident who did not want to be named said he heard suspicious activity leading up to the fire, and believes someone may have set the blaze.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;I hear like a &#8216;whoosh,&#8217; like an accelerant being thrown onto a fire or lighter fluid onto your charcoal to make your flame grow fast,&#8221; the resident said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Fire officials also said that none of the electric cars that were destroyed were near the ignition site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Plus, firefighters said there were no electric vehicles being charged and no charging stations at the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">In January,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/san-jose-multiple-cars-set-fire-series-possible-arson-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> multiple cars in San Jose <\/a>were also set on fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">In that case, firefighters said nine cars were damaged at five locations near Highway 87 and West San Carlos Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Firefighters also suspected arson in this spree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The San Jose Fire Department did not give any indication that the two cases were related.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_2250-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">Witness shares photo of cars in carport burned in San Jose. Oct. 23, 2026\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_2250-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">Witness shares photo of cars in carport burned in San Jose. Oct. 23, 2026\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_2249-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">Witness shares photo of cars in carport burned in San Jose. Oct. 23, 2026\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sanjosecars.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">San Jose firefighters put out a carport fire that damaged more than 20 cars. Photo: SJFD Oct. 23, 2026\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sjcar3.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">San Jose firefighters put out a carport fire that damaged more than 20 cars. Oct. 23, 2026\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story comes from the San Jose Fire Department and visual evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; A total of 24 cars were torched in San Jose after a carport caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-506347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506347","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=506347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}