{"id":380703,"date":"2026-01-01T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380703\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:26:08","slug":"denny-hamlin-speaks-out-on-fathers-death-in-massive-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380703\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin speaks out on father&#8217;s death in massive fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin is speaking out after the tragic death of his father, Dennis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NASCAR star took to social media on Wednesday to mourn his dad, who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/29\/sports\/nascar-star-denny-hamlins-dad-dennis-dies-in-house-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died at age 75 after sustaining injuries from a house fire<\/a> earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who has reached out with condolences on my father\u2019s passing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dennyhamlin\/status\/2006460054497878279\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hamlin wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cMy mother continues to improve, and our family truly appreciates the outpouring of support and the respect for our privacy during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 Progressive Toyota, reacts after the NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway on Nov. 2, 2025 in Avondale, Ariz. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Dennis and his wife, Mary Lou, and Denny\u2019s mother, lived in the house in Stanley, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were able to escape the home and were later taken to a nearby hospital, where Dennis was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou was in critical condition and hospitalized after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin\u2019s parents, Denny and Mary Lou.  Facebook\/Mary Lou Clark Hamlin<\/p>\n<p>She has since been transferred to a burn specialist in Winston-Salem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/nascar-star-denny-hamlin-gives-health-update-mom-after-she-injured-deadly-house-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported to emergency personnel at 6:19 p.m. Eastern on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A fire broke out at a Stanley, N.C. home owned by NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin on Sunday, December 28, 2025.   Lucia-Riverbend Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>Chief David Toomey of the Lucia Riverbend Fire Department Toomey told local outlet WSOC-TV that 40-45 percent of Dennis and Mary Lou\u2019s home was already on fire by the time emergency crews arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Denny, 45, is one of the top NASCAR drivers in the history of the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is tied for 10th on the NASCAR Cup Series\u2019 all-time win list with 60 and has won three Daytona 500 races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin is speaking out after the tragic death of his father, Dennis.\u00a0 The NASCAR star took to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,11922,634,82],"class_list":["post-380703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fires","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380703","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=380703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}