{"id":235937,"date":"2026-04-17T18:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:18:37","slug":"fire-shuts-down-all-roads-in-downtown-inverness-ccso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235937\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire shuts down all roads in downtown Inverness: CCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/citrus-fire-main-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Citrus County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">INVERNESS, Fla. &#8211; A structure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fire<\/a> in Inverness has closed all roads directly in downtown Inverness.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/citrus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Citrus County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office, a \u2018major\u2019 structure fire is burning near the intersection of Courthouse Square and N. Apopka Drive in downtown Inverness.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">All roads in downtown Inverness are shut down.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials are asking everyone to avoid the area, so first responders can clear the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Citrus County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies, Citrus County Fire Rescue, and Inverness Fire Department are on scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials have not said what building is on fire or if anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The cause of the fire has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information posted on social media by the Citrus County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/citrus\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citrus County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/fire\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Citrus County Sheriff&#8217;s Office INVERNESS, Fla. &#8211; A structure fire in Inverness has closed all roads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30202,855,47,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-235937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-citrus","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235937","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=235937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}