{"id":380922,"date":"2026-01-01T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:57:09","slug":"nascar-driver-denny-hamlin-breaks-silence-after-dad-dies-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380922\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Driver Denny Hamlin Breaks Silence After Dad Dies in House Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin<\/a> is speaking out for the first time since his father, Dennis Hamlin<\/a>, died in a house fire owned by Denny.<\/p>\n

In a social media post<\/a> Wednesday, Denny says … “Thank you to everyone who has reached out with condolences on my father’s passing.”<\/p>\n

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Denny’s mother, Mary Lou, was also home when the fire broke out, and she was hospitalized with critical injuries … but it sounds like she’s making progress in her recovery.<\/p>\n

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Denny says, “My mother continues to improve, and our family truly appreciates the outpouring of support and the respect for our privacy during this time.”<\/p>\n

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The Gaston County Emergency Management and Fire Services in North Carolina said they, along with several other fire agencies, were dispatched at 6:19 PM on Sunday to a two-story home that was engulfed in flames<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Authorities said Dennis and Mary Lou were found outside the residence and “both suffered catastrophic injuries while escaping the flames.”<\/p>\n

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Dennis ultimately died at the hospital<\/a>, and Mary Lou was transferred to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Burn Center in Winston-Salem.<\/p>\n

The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin is speaking out for the first time since his father, Dennis Hamlin, died in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-380922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380922","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=380922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}