{"id":125168,"date":"2026-01-20T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:15:41","slug":"fire-rips-through-ford-dealership-in-winter-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125168\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire rips through Ford dealership in Winter Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Brief A Ford dealership in Winter Haven caught fire on Tuesday morning.According to the Winter Haven Police Department, the fire started in the service bay building.Highway 17 is shut down in both directions. <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">WINTER HAVEN, Fla. &#8211; A Ford dealership in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\/winter-haven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winter Haven<\/a> caught fire on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the Winter Haven Police Department, the fire started in the service bay building.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Crews with the Winter Haven Fire Department and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Polk County<\/a> Fire are at the scene along with police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/brawl-winter-haven-youth-baseball-game-ends-3-arrests-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brawl at Winter Haven youth baseball game ends with 3 arrests: police<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Winter Haven Police Department <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Highway 17 is shut down in both directions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Drivers are asked to use alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/supercentenarian-celebrates-turning-111-years-old\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Haven woman celebrating 111th birthday honored with special celebration<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">It is unclear what caused the fire and when the road will reopen.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information found in a press release from the Winter Haven Police Department. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/polk\/winter-haven\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Haven<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/fire\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Ford dealership in Winter Haven caught fire on Tuesday morning.According to the Winter Haven Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[855,47,115,7153,135,137,136,628,21956],"class_list":["post-125168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fire","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-polk","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us","tag-winter-haven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}