{"id":296543,"date":"2026-06-05T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T00:00:19","slug":"2-alarm-commercial-fire-closes-stretch-of-south-50th-street-in-tampa-hcfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296543\/","title":{"rendered":"2-alarm commercial fire closes stretch of South 50th Street in Tampa: HCFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A large two-alarm commercial structure fire has shut down part of South 50th Street in Tampa as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Fire Rescue (HCFR) said crews were dispatched around 2:35 p.m. after multiple 911 calls reported a warehouse fire in the 4100 block of South 50th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters reported seeing a large column of smoke while heading to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to HCFR, crews attempted to extinguish the fire quickly, but a second alarm was called to bring in additional personnel and equipment due to the fire&#8217;s size.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained in less than an hour, with no reported injuries to civilians or firefighters, per HCFR.<\/p>\n<p>As of 4:30 p.m., HCFR said South 50th Street remains closed in both directions between Raleigh Street and Port Sutton Road while crews continue overhaul work.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are advised to take alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JULIE.SALOMONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brides left scrambling to find new venue after Red Mesa Catina suddenly closes<\/p>\n<p>Brides are left scrambling to find a new venue after the sudden closure of Red Mesa Cantina and its event spaces. <\/p>\n<p>Brides left scrambling to find new venue after Red Mesa Catina suddenly closes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A large two-alarm commercial structure fire has shut down part of South 50th Street in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6416,107722,855,53549,276,18277,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-296543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2-alarm-fire","tag-commercial-fire","tag-fire","tag-hcfr","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-south-street","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296543","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=296543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}