{"id":23141,"date":"2023-06-02T18:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=23141"},"modified":"2023-06-02T18:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:18:06","slug":"a-small-fire-outside-the-amalie-arena-blanket-area-surrounded-by-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=23141","title":{"rendered":"A small fire outside the Amalie Arena blanket area surrounded by smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A plume of smoke covered the area around Amalie Arena Friday morning.  The culprit: An old piece of equipment caught fire, according to the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tampa Fire Rescue responded to a call for a small trash fire outside the arena, 401 Channelside Drive, at 9:24 a.m., according to Vivian McIlrath, agency spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Tampa Bay Lighting spokesman said old equipment from the compound lot was being dismantled and a spark ignited the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The fire was out within a minute, McIlrath said.  There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The first engine got to the scene, put out the fire, called everybody off,&#8221; McIlrath said.  &#8220;It didn&#8217;t affect regular business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Although the fire was small, it caused a large cloud of smoke over the coastal area.<\/p>\n<p>Fire is seen in the arena behind Amalie Arena on Friday in Tampa. <span class=\"caption__credit\">[\u00a0Photo courtesy of Blair Krontenko\u00a0]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Times writer Eduardo A. Encina contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/breaking-news\/2023\/06\/02\/amalie-arena-fire-smoke-downtown-tampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plume of smoke covered the area around Amalie Arena Friday morning. The culprit: An old piece of equipment caught fire, according to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Tampa Fire Rescue responded to a call for a small trash fire outside the arena, 401 Channelside Drive, at 9:24 a.m., according to Vivian McIlrath, agency spokeswoman. A Tampa Bay Lighting spokesman said old equipment from the compound lot was being dismantled and a spark ignited the fire. The fire was out within a minute, McIlrath said. There were no reported injuries. &#8220;The first engine got to the scene, put out the fire,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23143,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141\/revisions\/23143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}