{"id":178051,"date":"2026-02-24T14:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178051\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:18:06","slug":"austin-firefighters-extinguish-apartment-complex-fire-oltorf-street-remains-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178051\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin firefighters extinguish apartment complex fire; Oltorf Street remains blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A fire at an apartment complex in southeast Austin shut down part of Oltorf Street on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Austin fire crews responded to the fire at 7:11 a.m. near the intersection of Oltorf Street and Pleasant Valley Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the fire has been extinguished, but Oltorf remained blocked in both directions at the intersection. Authorities expect the road to reopen soon.<\/p>\n<p>In their latest update, first responders said there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Any residents who had to evacuate could find shelter and stay warm thanks to a CapMetro bus that was offered to help.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are being asked to avoid the area while first responders remain on scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A fire at an apartment complex in southeast Austin shut down part of Oltorf Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-178051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178051","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=178051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}