{"id":179803,"date":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179803\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:42:07","slug":"south-lamar-blaze-near-loro-under-arson-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/179803\/","title":{"rendered":"South Lamar blaze near Loro under arson investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fire was reported just after 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning in the 2100 block of South Lamar, behind the restaurant Loro and near West\u00a0Oltorf Street.<\/p>\n<p>People on social media posted photos and videos of the fire, which prompted a brief road closure while first responders worked to extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n<p>The fire fully engulfed an unoccupied, two-story building, and damage is estimated at\u00a0$4 million.<\/p>\n<p>No person of interest has been named and the investigation remains ongoing as of Tuesday evening, the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fire was reported just after 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning in the 2100 block of South Lamar, behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-179803","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\/179803","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=179803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}