{"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&amp;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>&#8220;There were no patrons inside at the time,&#8221; 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 &#8220;heavy fire damage,&#8221; he said, primarily in the kitchen and the second level area on top of the kitchen. There was &#8220;heavy smoke and water damage throughout the dining room and bar area,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which drew a response from all of Brick&#8217;s 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&#8217;s 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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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}]}}