{"id":189496,"date":"2026-03-13T01:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189496\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:13:16","slug":"jacksonville-american-legion-flattened-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189496\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville American Legion flattened by storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The American Legion in Jacksonville was destroyed this afternoon as straight-line winds and possible tornadoes moved through Onslow County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Catie Ulrich-Rentz says she lives in an apartment complex next door to the Legion on Broadhurst Road. \u201cIt was insane to hear, it was so loud,\u201d Ulrich-Rentz told WITN.<\/p>\n<p>The American Legion building in Jacksonville was destroyed as storms passed through Eastern Carolina on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville police don\u2019t believe anyone was inside the building, but emergency crews were still going through the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The National Weather Service says straight-line winds destroyed the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stay with WITN on-air and online as we track this system this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The American Legion in Jacksonville was destroyed this afternoon as straight-line winds and possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1267,88635,88633,88634,10812,1161,116,118,117,4481,1854,38772,5592,17346,20712,4503,14111,1615,1268,6979,4480],"class_list":["post-189496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-cold-front","tag-eastern-north-carolina","tag-farmville","tag-farmville-police-department","tag-gusty-winds","tag-heavy-rain","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-outage","tag-power","tag-power-outage","tag-power-outages","tag-storm","tag-thunderstorm","tag-town","tag-wind","tag-winds","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189496","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=189496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}