{"id":1205,"date":"2026-06-04T19:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:38:30","slug":"vacant-building-fire-in-fremont-looked-worse-than-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Vacant building fire in Fremont looked worse than it was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>FREMONT \u2014 Fire crews put out a one-alarm fire at a vacant commercial building Thursday morning that spewed a smoke plume hundreds of yards high and wide.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1203\">Livermore\u2019s happening downtown: Wine country chic and small-town charm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smoke from the blaze at a building in the 2100 block of Prune Avenue \u2014 about 2\u00bd miles from the Tesla company on Fremont Boulevard \u2014 could be seen for several miles. It did not injure anyone, fire authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>A crew of 24 firefighters needed about an hour to put it out.<\/p>\n<p>Fremont Fire Division Chief Matthew Schneider said crews likely would be there into the afternoon going through the rubble of the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smoke it sent into the air was two or three football fields wide,\u201d Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1201\">San Pablo man gets 31 years for hacking woman to death, torching her body<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crews were on the scene six minutes after the fire was reported at 8:51 a.m. They weren\u2019t able to enter the building immediately and fought the fire from the outside initially. Schneider said they later were able to get inside the building and will continue to go through it to put out hot spots and clean up the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider said nobody was injured. Investigators have not determined what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities closed down Osgood Road at Prune Street while crews fought the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1199\">Teen dead, 3 people injured in shooting at Bay Area high school graduation ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire crews put out a one-alarm fire at a vacant commercial building Thursday morning that spewed a smoke plume hundreds of yards high and wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vacant building fire in Fremont looked worse than it was - 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