{"id":204206,"date":"2026-03-24T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204206\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:01:08","slug":"woman-detained-after-attempting-to-start-fire-inside-tampa-walmart-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204206\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman detained after attempting to start fire inside Tampa Walmart, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa police and firefighters responded to a Walmart on East Hillsborough Avenue after they say a woman tried to start a fire inside.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A woman was detained Tuesday morning after police said she attempted to start a fire inside a Tampa Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Police Department tells 10 Tampa Bay News that officers responded around 10:25 a.m. to the store at East Hillsborough Avenue and found smoke from a bean bag-sized stack of cardboard.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the incident caused smoke inside the store, but did not develop into a fire.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken into custody around 10:30 a.m. and is currently being evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the incident, video from 10 Tampa Bay News crews showed the store blocked off by police, with Walmart employees and customers evacuated outside.<\/p>\n<p>Police say no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bf6164b7-1c38-44d6-b3ed-864731a2efa4_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa police and firefighters responded to a Walmart on East Hillsborough Avenue after they say a woman tried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-204206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204206","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=204206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}