{"id":5836,"date":"2025-10-16T01:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5836\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:26:25","slug":"tampa-fire-rescue-battles-2-alarm-fire-on-west-kennedy-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5836\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Fire Rescue battles 2-alarm fire on West Kennedy Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Fire Rescue battled a two-alarm structure fire Wednesday on West Kennedy Boulevard at South Westland Avenue, shutting the roadway in both directions as crews worked the scene, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said there were no reported injuries among civilians, students, or firefighters at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760577984_613_\" alt=\"tfr kennedy blvd fire3.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"854\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>Both directions of West Kennedy Boulevard remain closed near the intersection, and crews are asking the public to please avoid the area. <\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760577984_850_\" alt=\"tfr kennedy blvd fire1.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediaassets.abcactionnews.com\/image\/VideoModule\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Israeli defense minister speaks in Sarasota as protesters demand arrest over alleged war crimes<\/p>\n<p>Yoav Gallant spoke at a ticketed event hosted by the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee, while protesters outside denounced his wartime actions and called for accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Former Israeli defense minister speaks in Sarasota as protesters demand arrest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Fire Rescue battled a two-alarm structure fire Wednesday on West Kennedy Boulevard at South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6416,205,855,276,135,3670,6417,137,136,6418,6419,208],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2-alarm-fire","tag-abc-action-news","tag-fire","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-fire-rescue","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-two-alarm-fire","tag-west-kennedy-boulevard","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","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=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}