{"id":207467,"date":"2025-10-07T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207467\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:11:09","slug":"lewiston-fire-at-kaydenz-kitchen-former-schemengees-injures-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/207467\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewiston fire at Kaydenz Kitchen, former Schemengees, injures one"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tINVESTIGATORS ARE STILL WORKING TO LEARN WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH. BREAKING NEWS NOW FROM LEWISTON.. FIREFIGHTERS ARE BATTLING A FIRE AT KAYDENZ KITCHEN ON LINCOLN STREET.. THAT IS ALSO THE FORMER SCHEMENGEES BAR AND GRILLE.. FIREFIGHTERS TELL US ONE PERSON WAS HURT.. BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO SURVIVE.. PICTURES SHOW SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING.. WE DON’T KNOW YET HOW THE FIRE STARTED.. THE ROAD\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

One injured in fire at Kaydenz Kitchen in Lewiston, former Schemengees Bar and Grille<\/p>\n

Schemengees was one of two sites of the 2023 Lewiston mass shooting<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:02 PM EDT Oct 7, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLewiston authorities say one person was injured in a fire that broke out at Kaydenz Kitchen, a local nonprofit organization that moved into one of the two sites where the 2023 mass shooting took place.The Lewiston Police Department said everyone at 551 Lincoln St. has been accounted for, and that one person was transported to a hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.Lincoln Street is closed between Locust Street and South Avenue while crews work to extinguish the fire. Police said they expected Lincoln Street would be reopened shortly after 5 p.m.Kaydenz Kitchen has opened a warming shelter and the Alter 207 secondhand store at the former Schemengees Bar and Grille, where 10 people were killed and 10 others were wounded on Oct. 25, 2023.The Lewiston Fire Department shared several photos from the scene, which show significant damage to the outside of the building.Firefighters said an investigation into the origin and cause of the fire will begin once crews finish extinguishing and overhauling the area.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Lewiston authorities say one person was injured in a fire that broke out at Kaydenz Kitchen, a local nonprofit organization that moved into one of the two sites where the 2023 mass shooting took place.<\/p>\n

The Lewiston Police Department said everyone at 551 Lincoln St. has been accounted for, and that one person was transported to a hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Lincoln Street is closed between Locust Street and South Avenue while crews work to extinguish the fire. Police said they expected Lincoln Street would be reopened shortly after 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Kaydenz Kitchen has opened a warming shelter<\/a> and the Alter 207 secondhand store at the former Schemengees Bar and Grille<\/a>, where 10 people were killed and 10 others were wounded on Oct. 25, 2023.<\/p>\n

The Lewiston Fire Department shared several photos from the scene<\/a>, which show significant damage to the outside of the building.<\/p>\n

Firefighters said an investigation into the origin and cause of the fire will begin once crews finish extinguishing and overhauling the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL WORKING TO LEARN WHAT CAUSED THE CRASH. BREAKING NEWS NOW FROM LEWISTON.. FIREFIGHTERS ARE BATTLING…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119034,4,450,26096,22212,10070,45004,119039,119042,119037,451,6270,119035,31996,119040,119036,119038,10482,14971,3,66560,11901,119043,119041,73448,452,453,14972],"class_list":{"0":"post-207467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-alter-207","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-building","12":"tag-crew","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-firefighter","15":"tag-former-schemengee","16":"tag-former-schemengees-bar","17":"tag-former-schemengees-bar-and-grille","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-investigation","20":"tag-kaydenz-kitchen","21":"tag-lewiston","22":"tag-lewiston-fire","23":"tag-lewiston-mass-shooting-site","24":"tag-lincoln-street","25":"tag-maine","26":"tag-maines-total-coverage","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-origin","29":"tag-person","30":"tag-secondhand-store","31":"tag-south-avenue","32":"tag-thrift-store","33":"tag-top-stories","34":"tag-topstories","35":"tag-wmtw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}