{"id":420301,"date":"2026-10-06T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420301\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:26:35","slug":"underground-electrical-fire-damages-roads-keeps-monroe-street-closed-through-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/420301\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground electrical fire damages roads, keeps Monroe Street closed through the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; An underground electrical fire in downtown Tallahassee damaged roads and prompted widespread closures near the Capitol complex and Leon County Courthouse as crews worked to address the impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders from the Tallahassee Fire Department, Tallahassee Police Department and Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office were assisting with the fire-related incident in the area east of the Capitol complex near the courthouse. Motorists were urged to avoid the area, use alternate routes and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p>Road closures were expected to remain in place throughout the day, including Monroe Street between Jefferson Street and Apalachee Parkway, along with adjacent roads.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also reported lane closures along North Monroe Street from Apalachee Parkway north to Park Avenue and east to Franklin Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office listed the road-closure perimeter as:<\/p>\n<p>South: S. Monroe\/FAMU Way<\/p>\n<p>West: Gaines St\/S. Adams<\/p>\n<p>East: Apalachee Pkwy\/Franklin Blvd<\/p>\n<p>North: Calhoun and N. Monroe St\/College Ave<\/p>\n<p>Updates were expected as they became available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; An underground electrical fire in downtown Tallahassee damaged roads and prompted widespread closures near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-420301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420301","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=420301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}