{"id":246477,"date":"2026-04-25T18:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:48:20","slug":"food-trucks-catch-fire-in-windermere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246477\/","title":{"rendered":"Food trucks catch fire in Windermere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h939469-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">A fire incident occurred Friday, April 24, in front of Windermere Town Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Two food trucks, Grandma\u2019s BBQ and Smoothie Express, caught on fire prior to Food Truck Night taking place.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">\u00a0According to Windermere Police Chief Dave Ogden, upon arrival, officers saw Gradma\u2019s BBQ food truck fully engulfed in flames, with the fire reaching approximately 20 feet in height.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">A portion of the Smoothie Express food truck and a small generator then caught fire as well, due to their proximity to Grandma\u2019s BBQ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Ocoee Fire Department responded to the scene and quickly got the fire under control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">No injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">Ogden said a Hazmat team was requested as a precaution, the Miller Environmental Group handled cleanup and decontamination efforts, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection was notified regarding potential runoff into nearby drainage systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">The State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office now is leading the investigation, Ogden said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h939469-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">\u201cAt this time, the fire appears to be accidental in nature,\u201d he said \u201c\u2026There will be no further investigation conducted by the Windermere Police Department.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire incident occurred Friday, April 24, in front of Windermere Town Hall.\u00a0 Two food trucks, Grandma\u2019s BBQ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-246477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246477","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=246477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}