{"id":897212,"date":"2026-06-27T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/897212\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:44:15","slug":"smoke-rises-from-building-fire-in-tempe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/897212\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke rises from building fire in Tempe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 East Valley residents may have woken up to smoke in the air Saturday morning due to a large building fire in Tempe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Details about the fire are limited. Several fire units were called to the reported fire at a building near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/CThkdqrQGPx4CVxe8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/CThkdqrQGPx4CVxe8\">Broadway Road and Hardy Drive<\/a> around 7:30 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">A large plume of smoke could be seen rising from the area as crews began responding. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A viewer photo sent to Arizona's Family shows a large plume of smoke rising from a building...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/QVLICVU6J5HNVPH2V74IPHD4VM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A viewer photo sent to Arizona&#8217;s Family shows a large plume of smoke rising from a building fire in Tempe.(David Rowden)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The fire response prompted a closure of eastbound Broadway Road and southbound Hardy Drive, Tempe Police said. The roads were blocked until around 1:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) \u2014 East Valley residents may have woken up to smoke in the air Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":897213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,363520,1587,7182,320665,363519,363516,1589,7183,363518,363517,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-897212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-asu-fire","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-fire-in-phoenix","tag-fire-in-tempe","tag-hardy-dr-fire","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-news","tag-tempe-az-fire","tag-tempe-smoke","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116824027131495341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}