{"id":29867,"date":"2023-02-07T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=29867"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:37:09","slug":"update-on-the-texas-cattle-company-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/02\/07\/update-on-the-texas-cattle-company-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Texas Cattle Company fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThat is still unfolding,\u201d said Stephen Gary, the restaurant’s operating partner.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Stephen Gary, the restaurant’s operating partner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Gary said the restaurant office, the “fire pit” where all the steaks are cooked and the roof above those areas was destroyed leaving the business with damage to about 25% of the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The rest of the restaurant is still in good shape,” he said. “The dining room wasn’t really touched.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the damage was water, soot, and ash and there were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cause of the blaze appears to be smoldering wood used to smoke meat from a firebox beneath a grill, said Lakeland Fire Marshal Cheryl Edwards.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lakeland Fire Marshal Cheryl Edwards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

“Our fire investigators are going to call the fire unintentional,” Edwards said. “They believe it was accidental.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each night employees empty out the wood from the firebox, place it into a metal can and move it outside on a dolly, Edwards said. However, it appears some of the smoldering wood fell on the ground near the pine wood exterior where the fire started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Lakeland Fire Department, crews responded to a report of a fire at Texas Cattle Company early Tuesday at about 1 a.m. and could see heavy flames and smoke from the south side of the building at 735 E. Main St. on the east shore of Lake Mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fire at the single-story structure presented “several challenges, including propane tank storage and a compromised gas line due to high temperatures and fire,” LFD said. The fire was brought under control around 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat is still unfolding,\u201d said Stephen Gary, the restaurant’s operating partner. Gary said the restaurant office, the “fire pit” where all the steaks are cooked and the roof above those… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[4480],"class_list":["post-29867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-update-on-the-texas-cattle-company-fire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}