{"id":123349,"date":"2026-01-14T21:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123349\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:34:39","slug":"three-alarm-fire-called-at-former-carter-junior-high-school-in-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/123349\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-alarm fire called at former Carter Junior High School in Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Firefighters said it took them more than  an hour to put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fire\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fire\/\">fire<\/a> at a vacant junior high school in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arlington\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arlington\/\">Arlington<\/a> early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Smoke was seen by firefighters coming from the roof of the former Carter Junior High School at 701 Tharp St. around 12:04 a.m., the Arlington Fire Department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The building was vacant and undergoing demolition, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A second alarm was called due to the building\u2019s size and construction. Firefighters said the fire was then upgraded to a third alarm as fire conditions worsened and spread internally on the second and third floors.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The fire was contained and deemed under control at 1:29 a.m., about an hour and 25 minutes after initial units arrived, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">There were no reported injuries from the fire, and the cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters said it took them more than an hour to put out a fire at a vacant junior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,581,630,1225],"class_list":{"0":"post-123349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-public-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}