{"id":256089,"date":"2026-05-03T01:57:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256089\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:57:40","slug":"2-alarm-fire-erupts-at-commercial-building-on-usf-st-petersburg-campus-spfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256089\/","title":{"rendered":"2-alarm fire erupts at commercial building on USF St. Petersburg campus: SPFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Fire crews are battling a two-alarm structure fire at a commercial building on the University of South Florida (USF) St. Petersburg campus, according to St. Petersburg Fire Rescue (SPFR).<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the building at 140 7th Ave S was safely evacuated, and no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>SPFR said the scene remains active and will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>USF has issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JADA.WILLIAMS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Petition calls for safety overhaul at Avalon Heights after 2 students killed<\/p>\n<p>A University of South Florida student has launched a petition calling for safety reforms at Avalon Heights apartments in Tampa following the deaths of two USF doctoral students, Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy.<\/p>\n<p>Petition calls for safety overhaul at Avalon Heights after 2 USF doctoral students were killed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Fire crews are battling a two-alarm structure fire at a commercial building on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-256089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256089","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=256089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}