{"id":228118,"date":"2026-04-12T01:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:39:09","slug":"watch-car-fire-in-tampa-sends-plume-of-smoke-into-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228118\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Car fire in Tampa sends plume of smoke into the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Fire Rescue responded to the fire at around 3:45 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of E Cass St. and N Tampa St.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A car fire in Tampa sent a plume of smoke into the air on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Fire Rescue responded to the fire at around 3:45 p.m. at the intersection of E Cass St. and N Tampa St. Crews arrived to find a car&#8217;s engine and front passenger compartment engulfed in flames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire rescue officials say the person who was driving the car left the vehicle before they arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and officials say the fire appears mechanical in nature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Traffic along N Tampa St. was briefly impacted as crews worked to extinguish the flames and performed overhaul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Fire Rescue responded to the fire at around 3:45 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of E Cass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-228118","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\/228118","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=228118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}