{"id":257645,"date":"2026-05-04T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257645\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:37:57","slug":"free-sandwiches-brought-to-firefighters-fighting-usf-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257645\/","title":{"rendered":"Free sandwiches brought to firefighters fighting USF fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Dozens of firefighters fought to control a <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2026\/05\/02\/2-alarm-fire-forces-building-evacuation-at-usf-s-st--pete-campus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire at the USF St. Pete Campus Marine Science Lab<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>When fighting a fire that\u2019s this intense, food is needed.<\/p>\n<p>So when the call came in, Gateway Subs co-founder Morgan Zook said they didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feed them a lot,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd [a firefighter] goes, \u2018are you guys open?\u2019 I go, \u2018well, we\u2019re kind of closing up right now. What do you need?\u2019 He goes, \u2018there\u2019s a massive fire going on at USF St. Pete campus. These guys haven\u2019t eaten in hours; we got to feed them.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018say less.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It did not matter to Zook that they were shutting down for the night.<\/p>\n<p>One message in their group chat later, they got to work.<\/p>\n<p>In just 45 minutes, Zook said they made around 60 sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we were driving in with the sandwiches loaded up in coolers, we didn\u2019t know what we were getting into,\u201d he said. \u201cAll the roads were blocked off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were thrilled to get food after working for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Zook and his team get these sandwiches to them, but they did it for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to feed them,\u201d Zook said. \u201cThey do so much for our community, and we just want to. This is the least we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Dozens of firefighters fought to control a fire at the USF St. Pete Campus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4628,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":["post-257645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-matt-lackritz","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257645","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=257645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}