{"id":228180,"date":"2026-04-12T02:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228180\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:52:14","slug":"car-fire-in-tampa-sends-plume-of-smoke-into-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/228180\/","title":{"rendered":"Car fire in Tampa sends plume of smoke into the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A car fire in Tampa sent a plume of smoke into the air on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire rescue officials say the person who was driving the car left the vehicle before they arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported, and officials say the fire appears mechanical in nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traffic along N Tampa St. was briefly impacted as crews worked to extinguish the flames and performed overhaul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car fire in Tampa sent a plume of smoke into the air on Saturday. Tampa Fire Rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-228180","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\/228180","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=228180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}