{"id":266640,"date":"2025-11-06T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:59:08","slug":"massive-fire-damages-home-owned-by-heat-coach-erik-spoelstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266640\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fire damages home owned by Heat coach Erik Spoelstra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORAL GABLES, Fla. &#8212; The home of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> coach Erik Spoelstra was heavily damaged by a massive fire Thursday morning. There were no immediate reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade County fire officials said the blaze was called in around 4:36 a.m. Spoelstra was not in the home at the time. He coached the Heat in Denver on Wednesday night and their charter flight back to Miami did not land until 5:11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Spoelstra arrived at the home shortly after the plane landed, with several fire crews working to try to contain the blaze. Smoke was still seen rising over the property around 8 a.m. but it appeared that most of the fire was contained at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said a news briefing was scheduled for later Thursday. Property records show Spoelstra bought the five-bedroom, six-bathroom home in December 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. &#8212; The home of Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra was heavily damaged by a massive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-266640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}