{"id":205144,"date":"2026-03-25T08:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:07:55","slug":"walmart-evacuated-after-woman-allegedly-tried-to-start-fire-inside-tampa-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205144\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart evacuated after woman allegedly tried to start fire inside: Tampa police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Police Department (TPD) said a Walmart was evacuated after a woman allegedly tried to start a fire in the store.<\/p>\n<p>Police said preliminary information suggests a woman, who is now in police custody, attempted to light three pieces of cardboard on fire inside the Walmart at 1720 E. Hillsborough Ave for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n<p>While there was smoke, the building was not on fire, and, out of an abundance of caution, store personnel evacuated the building, per the report.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they are actively investigating the incident and the Walmart remains closed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HCA Florida Brandon Hospital performs Tampa Bay&#8217;s first slipped rib procedure using biodegradable plate<\/p>\n<p>A local hospital has a new way to treat patients suffering from severe, radiating rib pain.<\/p>\n<p>HCA Florida Brandon Hospital performs Tampa Bay&#8217;s first slipped rib procedure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Police Department (TPD) said a Walmart was evacuated after a woman allegedly tried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,855,276,135,5910,3670,137,136,3793,17456,208],"class_list":["post-205144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-fire","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department","tag-walmart","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205144","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=205144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}