{"id":43786,"date":"2019-07-11T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43786"},"modified":"2019-07-11T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:31:23","slug":"mexican-restaurant-grocery-store-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/07\/mexican-restaurant-grocery-store-catches-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican restaurant \/ Grocery store catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Fire-Investigation-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Fire-Investigation-graphic.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Fire-Investigation-graphic-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A fire broke out inside a Mexican restaurant \/ Grocery store\nin Lehigh Acres early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happened at around 2 AM inside the Tortilleria La Guera in the Shoppes in Lehigh 4316 Lee Blvd. The shopping plaza is along Lee Boulevard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Lehigh Acres Fire trucks were on the scene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The battalion chief with Lehigh Acres Fire Rescue said they\nhave an investigator on scene working to determine the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Select Physical Therapy, the business next door, received\nsome smoke damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner said the restaurant is also a store and he hopes to get his business back up and running soon. Right now, it\u2019s unknown the extent of the damage inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says some rags with cleaning chemicals on it caught on\nfire because there was a chemical reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire was an accident, but he says the damage will cost\nabout $50,000. This is a hard loss because he said the owner does not have\ninsurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the food will have to be thrown out because of heat and\nsmoke damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner tells us this is his family business. He\u2019s owned\nit for five years and is shocked over what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out inside a Mexican restaurant \/ Grocery store in Lehigh Acres early Thursday morning. It happened at around 2 AM inside the Tortilleria La Guera in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}