{"id":8860,"date":"2016-07-04T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2016-07-04T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:59:07","slug":"villa-vittoria-suffers-heavy-fire-damage-no-injuries-in-restaurant-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/07\/villa-vittoria-suffers-heavy-fire-damage-no-injuries-in-restaurant-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Vittoria Suffers &#8216;Heavy&#8217; Fire Damage, No Injuries in Restaurant Blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Villa Vittoria Fire, Brick, NJ\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/173411466?dnt=1&app_id=122963\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Video credit: Bill Wheeler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters have put out a blaze that heavily damaged the Villa Vittoria restaurant in Brick Monday, but fortunately, officials said, there were no injuries related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called to the restaurant, located near\u00a0the intersection of Hooper Avenue and Mantoloking Road, at about 3:30 p.m., said Kevin Batzel,\u00a0chief of the Brick Township Bureau of Fire Safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no patrons inside at the time,\u201d said Batzel.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant staff were inside, but were alerted to the fire by alarms and escaped safely,Batzel said.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant suffered \u201cheavy fire damage,\u201d he said, primarily in the kitchen and the second level area on top of the kitchen. There was \u201cheavy smoke and water damage throughout the dining room and bar area,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which drew a response from all of Brick\u2019s fire companies, as well as the Mantoloking, Silverton and Point Pleasant companies, remains under investigation. Investigators from the bureau, Brick police department and Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office are tasked with determining the cause.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/07\/villa-vittoria-suffers-heavy-fire-damage-no-injuries-in-restaurant-blaze\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters have put out a blaze that heavily damaged the Villa Vittoria restaurant in Brick Monday, but fortunately, officials said, there were no injuries related to the incident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,198,2273],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-fire","tag-villa-vittoria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-04-at-4.56.36-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}