{"id":375855,"date":"2025-12-29T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:00:07","slug":"nascar-fans-praying-for-denny-hamlin-after-house-fire-leaves-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375855\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR fans praying for Denny Hamlin after house fire leaves one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prayers are pouring in for NASCAR star Denny Hamlin and his family after a fire at his parent\u2019s house left one person dead and another seriously hurt.<\/p>\n

WSOC-TV in Charlotte reports<\/a> that a fire occurred at a house in Gaston County, N.C. Sunday evening. A call about the fire came in at around 6 p.m. Sunday, per the report.<\/p>\n

Officials said Monday that the parents of NASCAR<\/a> star Denny Hamlin were living at the house. They have not revealed the name of the person who died due to the fire, or the person who is seriously injured.<\/p>\n

No additional details have been revealed about the fire, and the cause of the fire is unknown. The house is owned by Hamlin, according to WSOC.<\/p>\n

WCNC in Charlotte reports<\/a> that the person who was hurt in the fire suffered life-threatening injuries. WCNC adds that the fire resulted in a complete loss of the home. <\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin has competed in the NASCAR Cup Series since 2005 and has earned 60 wins for his career. That mark includes three Daytona 500 victories.<\/p>\n

NASCAR fans were left heartbroken over the news about Hamlin\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

“This is horrible. Praying for Denny and his family,” one fan said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another added<\/a>: “Dear God… wrap this family up tight. I cannot imagine what\u2019s going thru their heads right now. Not the way anyone should have their life ended. What a tragedy. So very sorry Hamlin family and friends are having to go thru this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prayers are pouring in for NASCAR star Denny Hamlin and his family after a fire at his parent\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,26255,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-375855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mmsnascar","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}