{"id":367028,"date":"2026-08-09T20:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367028\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:34:06","slug":"fire-chief-7-families-displaced-after-attic-fire-in-oldsmar-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367028\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire chief: 7 families displaced after attic fire in Oldsmar apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First responders arrived to see smoke coming from the attic and the fire partially spread through the roof, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>OLDSMAR, Fla. \u2014 An apartment fire in Oldsmar on Sunday morning displaced seven families, fire officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 8:50 a.m., a structure fire was reported at the 3000 block of Old Village Way in the Aventine at Forest Lakes Apartment Homes complex.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews from Oldsmar, East Lake, Safety Harbor, Palm Harbor and Clearwater responded to the scene, according to Oldsmar Fire Chief Jason Schwabe.<\/p>\n<p>Crews arrived to find &#8220;fire in the attic and partially through the roof&#8221; of the two-story building, Schwabe said.<\/p>\n<p>No residents or firefighters were injured, but seven families were displaced, including two dogs and three cats. Schwabe says property management and American Red Cross are assisting the displaced families.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First responders arrived to see smoke coming from the attic and the fire partially spread through the roof,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-367028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367028","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=367028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}