{"id":255958,"date":"2026-05-02T23:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255958\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:28:48","slug":"crews-battle-fire-at-building-on-usf-st-pete-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255958\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle fire at building on USF St. Pete campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/structure-fire-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; Crews were battling a fire near the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Plumes of smoke were seen rising above a building near the USF St. Pete campus. Officials say the structure fire is at 140 7th Avenue South.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">St. Petersburg Fire Rescue said the building was safely evacuated, and there have been no reports of injuries at this time.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/structire-fire-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/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=\"\">The fire remains an active incident. Updates will be released as they become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from on-scene reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/usf\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of South Florida<\/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 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; Crews were battling a fire near the University of South Florida St. Petersburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[855,47,115,1536,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628,1537],"class_list":["post-255958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fire","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us","tag-usf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255958","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=255958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}