{"id":134021,"date":"2026-01-27T21:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T21:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:39:32","slug":"investigation-underway-after-jacksonville-mcdonalds-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134021\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after Jacksonville McDonald\u2019s fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) \u2014 A fire occurred at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant on Western Blvd in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sarah Sinese, Jacksonville Police PIO, said at 12:17 p.m. the Jacksonville Fire Department was dispatched to a working structure fire at the McDonald\u2019s located at 404 Western Blvd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The restaurant was already closed due to other impairments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No customers were in the building at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported among the limited staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was extinguished by 1:10 p.m., and the city said there is moderate structural damage, and the building will remain closed until proper repairs can be made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnct.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WNCT.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WNCT. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) \u2014 A fire occurred at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant on Western Blvd in Jacksonville. Sarah Sinese,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,59907,118,117,65698,23789,65699],"class_list":["post-134021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fire-department","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sarah-sinese","tag-structure-fire","tag-western-blvd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134021","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=134021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}