{"id":913697,"date":"2026-11-11T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913697\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:12:13","slug":"crews-responding-to-large-fire-at-former-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/913697\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews responding to large fire at former elementary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/97622e75-1a4e-4b50-ace8-2898235bc25c_1718283857.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Patrick Pierce\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1794409933_751_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Birmingham firefighters are battling a large fire at the former Elyton Elementary School in the Arlington-West End area of West Birmingham, Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Smoke could be seen rising from the building. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The same former school caught fire in July of 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">WVTM 13 ON-THE-GO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/article\/get-wvtm-13-on-the-go-download\/44045536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download our app for free<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available. Stay updated on the latest stories with the WVTM 13 app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/article\/get-wvtm-13-on-the-go-download\/44045536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 Birmingham firefighters are battling a large fire at the former Elyton Elementary School in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[381688,381690,5183,11357,381700,24893,142318,381702,54897,4,450,381694,22212,72131,72763,88150,98498,5723,381698,451,14863,7345,140677,381693,3,381701,381697,381699,381696,381691,36353,13546,452,453,381695,14978,381689,381692,47222],"class_list":["post-913697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-abandoned-elementary-school","tag-abandoned-school","tag-alabama","tag-app","tag-arlington-west-end-area","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-fire","tag-birmingham-firefighter","tag-blaze","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-burning-building","tag-crew","tag-elementary-school","tag-emergency-response","tag-fire-crews","tag-fire-response","tag-firefighters","tag-former-elementary-school","tag-headlines","tag-information","tag-july","tag-large-fire","tag-local-fire-department","tag-news","tag-on-the-go","tag-responding-crews","tag-same-former-school","tag-school-building","tag-school-fire","tag-smoke","tag-story","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vacant-school","tag-wednesday-morning","tag-west-birmingham","tag-west-side-birmingham","tag-wvtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913697","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=913697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}