{"id":108557,"date":"2026-02-08T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108557\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:43:08","slug":"ross-park-mall-delays-opening-following-fire-underneath-floors-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108557\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Park Mall delays opening following fire underneath floors, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDozens of firefighters and police ascended on Ross Park Mall early Sunday morning.  Allegheny County dispatchers say crews were called to the area around the mall around 4:15 a.m. Sunday. Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 crew on scene could see firefighters going in and out of the building  near the JCPenney&#8217;s entrance. According to the Reserve Volunteer Fire Department the fire was in a void space between the floors. Firefighters say the fire also elevated carbon monoxide levels throughout the complex.Right now the mall remains closed. A post on the mall&#8217;s website says they will try to open later Sunday at noon. This is a developing story.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of firefighters and police ascended on Ross Park Mall early Sunday morning.  <\/p>\n<p>Allegheny County dispatchers say crews were called to the area around the mall around 4:15 a.m. Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 crew on scene could see firefighters going in and out of the building  near the JCPenney&#8217;s entrance. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Reserve Volunteer Fire Department the fire was in a void space between the floors. Firefighters say the fire also elevated carbon monoxide levels throughout the complex.<\/p>\n<p>Right now the mall remains closed. A post on the mall&#8217;s website says they will try to open later Sunday at noon. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a target=\"_blank\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of firefighters and police ascended on Ross Park Mall early Sunday morning. Allegheny County dispatchers say crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1304,13031,900,894,2584,6849,3798,28365,422,8631,18169,52081,6439,16108,73,75,74,52082,27462,3172,2581],"class_list":{"0":"post-108557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-1304","9":"tag-a-m-sunday","10":"tag-action-news","11":"tag-allegheny-county","12":"tag-allegheny-county-dispatcher","13":"tag-crew","14":"tag-download","15":"tag-dozen","16":"tag-fire","17":"tag-firefighter","18":"tag-floor","19":"tag-mall-flames","20":"tag-official","21":"tag-opening","22":"tag-pittsburgh","23":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","24":"tag-pittsburgh-news","25":"tag-reserve-volunteer-fire-department","26":"tag-ross-park-mall","27":"tag-ross-township","28":"tag-scene"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}