{"id":921735,"date":"2026-07-08T21:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/921735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:42:20","slug":"car-fire-spreads-to-garage-in-peru-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/921735\/","title":{"rendered":"Car fire spreads to garage in Peru, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PERU, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A car and garage went up in flames in Peru, New York, Wednesday afternoon, with smoke from the blaze visible over the Northway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">First responders say they were called to a home at 424 Lapham Mills Road around 1 p.m. for reports of a vehicle fire. They say it quickly spread to the house\u2019s garage, taking about 45 minutes to put out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt started with the car, and he\u2019s not exactly sure what happened. He smelled something, and then it snowballed from there,\u201d said Peru Assistant Fire Chief Andrew McLaughlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fire officials say no one was hurt. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERU, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A car and garage went up in flames in Peru, New York, Wednesday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":921736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,3416,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,2742,41707,47139],"class_list":["post-921735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-peru","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116886539360797842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921735","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=921735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}