
{"id":1290,"date":"2007-11-14T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/11\/14\/weaver-street-business-destroyed-by-fire\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T23:36:58","slug":"weaver-street-business-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/11\/14\/weaver-street-business-destroyed-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaver Street business destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Jack Carley<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fire caused an estimated $350,000 in damage at F &amp; F Automotive Inc. on Weaver Street last Thursday, November 8, according to the Carrboro Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Fire trucks arrived at the building around 7 p.m. to find that a car inside the building was ablaze and fire was spreading through the building. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Four fire engines and 21 firefighters had the fire under control in about ten minutes while Carrboro police directed traffic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Owner Cleveland \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cleve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fogleman said four cars were damaged along with most of the shop. He said the fire started while an employee was working on a van and that a gas fire spread to the building and other cars.<\/p>\n<p>Fogleman said he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what will happen now. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in limbo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. But he was resolute: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got problems, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re working through \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcem.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Fogleman opened his first shop in Carrboro in 1962 before moving to Chapel Hill for a time. But F&amp;F has been at its Weaver Street location since 1972.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has had many people offer to help out: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really been remarkable how many people have come out to help.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He said he was grateful to the fire department and community for the help he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Carley Staff Writer Fire caused an estimated $350,000 in damage at F &amp; F Automotive Inc. on Weaver Street last Thursday, November 8, according to the Carrboro Fire Department. Fire trucks arrived at the building around 7 p.m. to find that a car inside the building was ablaze and fire was spreading through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}