{"id":257962,"date":"2026-05-04T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257962\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:27:40","slug":"crews-battle-fire-at-building-on-usf-st-pete-campus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257962\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle fire at building on USF St. Pete campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews battled a fire on the USF St. Petersburg campus Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to St. Petersburg Fire Rescue, the building was safely evacuated and there were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This still remains an active incident, the cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; Crews were battling a fire near the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777915660_113_da497da12fa2db633b58d26415ce3ae2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire remains an active incident. Updates will be released as they become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article was written using information from on-scene reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Crews battled a fire on the USF St. Petersburg campus Saturday evening. According to St. Petersburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[111266,202,204,203,199,201,200,23789],"class_list":["post-257962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-reported-injuries","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-structure-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257962","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=257962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}