{"id":448861,"date":"2026-02-04T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:22:19","slug":"cigarette-to-blame-for-fire-at-unl-fraternity-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448861\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette to blame for fire at UNL fraternity house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) &#8211; Lincoln Fire and Rescue believes a carelessly discarded cigarette caused a fire at the Theta Xi house early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire at 16th and R streets was reported just after midnight and caused about $50,000 in damage to the back of the house, LFR said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to LFR, the fire started outside the building and did not spread into the residence. There have been no reported injuries or need for relocations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1011now.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our 10\/11 NOW daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOLN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) &#8211; Lincoln Fire and Rescue believes a carelessly discarded cigarette caused a fire at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,10070,451,9383,3,210599,452,453,53851,46457],"class_list":["post-448861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-lincoln","tag-news","tag-theta-xi","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-university-of-nebraska-lincoln","tag-unl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448861","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=448861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}