{"id":266902,"date":"2026-05-11T17:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266902\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:58:26","slug":"investigation-under-way-after-jacksonville-fire-damages-two-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266902\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation under way after Jacksonville fire damages two vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are investigating a fire that damaged two cars and a building.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville firefighters responded about 5:46 p.m. Sunday to North Main and East\u00a0Wolcott streets for a report of heavy black smoke and a possible vehicle fire.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and police arrived to find a car on fire and cars parked both in front and behind it, according to Jacksonville Fire Department Chief Matt Summers.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was extinguished quickly, but not before it damaged one of the neighboring vehicles and caused some smoke discoloration on the outside of the nearby building, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The building&#8217;s interior was undamaged.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville police are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re calling it suspicious because there\u2019s no reason we know of that it started,\u201d police\u00a0Lt. Sean Walker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are investigating a fire that damaged two cars and a building. Jacksonville firefighters responded about 5:46 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,132,4614,278],"class_list":["post-266902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-breakingnews","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-pubnow","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266902","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=266902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}