{"id":311032,"date":"2026-06-17T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311032\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:41:07","slug":"improperly-discarded-smoking-materials-sparked-blaze-at-jacksonvilles-furniture-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311032\/","title":{"rendered":"Improperly discarded smoking materials sparked blaze at Jacksonville&#8217;s Furniture Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/news\/local\/jacksonville-police-assist-crews-at-working-structure-fire-near-817-n-marine-blvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 3 fire at Furniture Plus in Jacksonville<\/a> has been ruled accidental, according to the City of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Fire Department responded to the significant structure fire at the business, located on N. Marine Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Fire Investigation Unit investigated the origin and cause of the fire. Officials said the investigation included information from community members, a fire investigator from the North Carolina Office of State Fire Marshal, and a review of documentation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the city, the fire was caused by the improper disposal of smoking materials.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Fire Department thanked responding agencies, volunteers, and citizens whose assistance and information helped investigators reach that conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The June 3 fire at Furniture Plus in Jacksonville has been ruled accidental, according to the City of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-311032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311032","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=311032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}