{"id":423887,"date":"2026-01-22T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423887\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:46:15","slug":"9-people-5-animals-displaced-by-house-fire-on-indys-near-northwest-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423887\/","title":{"rendered":"9 people, 5 animals displaced by house fire on Indy&#8217;s near northwest side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, IFD crews responded to a report of a fire in the 2000 block of North Tibbs Avenue, near West 20th Street.<\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The Indianapolis Fire Department is investigating after a house fire left<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0nine people and five animals displaced<\/a> on Indy&#8217;s near northwest side early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2:30 a.m. Jan. 22, IFD crews responded to a report of a fire in the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/13VzVgYG2gyRvg3A8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2000 block of North Tibbs Avenue<\/a>, near West 20th Street.<\/p>\n<p>IFD Battalion Chief Scott Olofson told 13News firefighters were met with a fire in the basement of the house.<\/p>\n<p>While fighting the fire, parts of the first floor collapsed \u2014 forcing crews inside to evacuate and fight the blaze from the outside. As firefighters worked to find a different route back into the home, the fire spread up through the first and second floor.<\/p>\n<p>Our 13News crew on the scene could see flames coming through the roof and windows of the house.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bd88f3a3-8a8e-4792-b20e-01171fdf204b_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bd88f3a3-8a8e-4792-b20e-01171fdf204b_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, no residents, animals or firefighters were injured in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to Olofson, the cause of the fire is still undetermined as officials continue to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, IFD crews responded to a report of a fire in the 2000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-423887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423887","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=423887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}