{"id":291722,"date":"2026-06-01T13:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291722\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:32:19","slug":"garage-fire-on-central-ave-in-downtown-st-pete-causing-road-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291722\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage fire on Central Ave. in downtown St. Pete causing road closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance cameras showed smoke at around 7:30 a.m. in the area of 400 Central Avenue and 4th Street South.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A parking garage fire in downtown St. Pete is causing road closures Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete Fire Rescue first responded around 7 a.m. to an automatic fire alarm on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/400+Central+Ave,+St.+Petersburg,+FL+33701\/@27.7708696,-82.6415188,18.25z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x88c2e1835d22d05b:0x90b8b91bd74122e5!8m2!3d27.7709443!4d-82.6389294!16s%252Fg%252F11c24gs48m?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUyNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%253D%253D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">400 Central Avenue<\/a> where crews found smoke coming from the fourth-floor parking garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials found two fully involved vehicles and used water supply to take out the flames and prevent them from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance cameras showed smoke in the area before it cleared around 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Around 40 firefighters and 20 Fire Rescue units responded to the scene<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete police confirmed 1st Avenue South from 4th Street to 6th Street is closed, as well as 5th Street from Central Avenue to 2nd Avenue South.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/b679c714-a627-471a-902a-b977f42c5448_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surveillance cameras showed smoke at around 7:30 a.m. in the area of 400 Central Avenue and 4th Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-291722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291722","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=291722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}