{"id":76292,"date":"2026-06-02T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/76292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:33:09","slug":"fire-sparks-inside-new-bern-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/76292\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire sparks inside New Bern convenience store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; First responders were on the scene of a fire at a convenience store in New Bern overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Bern Fire-Rescue was called to the Five Star convenience store at 2709 Neuse Boulevard around 3:15 this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When crews got there, they saw heavy smoke coming from the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Firefighters went inside the store, where they saw more smoke and fire coming from the ceiling and roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews ventilated the store and were able to extinguish the fire in about one hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the store was vacant at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An investigation found that the fire started in a beverage cooler inside the store, according to officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">West New Bern Fire Department assisted in the firefighting efforts. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. NEW BERN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,2036,39872,11869,107,36934,105],"class_list":["post-76292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-fire","tag-five-star","tag-neuse-blvd","tag-new-bern","tag-new-bern-fire-rescue","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116681009427260951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}