{"id":193482,"date":"2026-02-25T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193482\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:10:10","slug":"townhome-fire-ignites-in-rossmoor-cat-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193482\/","title":{"rendered":"Townhome Fire Ignites In Rossmoor; Cat Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROSSMOOR, CA \u2014 A two-story townhome fire in Orange County killed a pet cat on Tuesday, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported at around 4:15 p.m. at a townhome on Montecito Road in Rossmoor. <\/p>\n<p>The second-alarm fire had spread into void spaces, the townhome&#8217;s attic and toward adjacent units, the Orange County Fire Authority said. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Neighbors reported smoke from a two-story townhome and a person possibly needing assistance exiting the residence on Montecito Road in Rossmoor at approximately 4:15 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AnBL80P3OM\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AnBL80P3OM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OCFA (@OCFireAuthority) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OCFireAuthority\/status\/2026530430871331288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 25, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters knocked down the fire by opening walls and flooring to extinguish flames, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>One person was evaluated at the scene and declined to be taken to a hospital, firefighters said. One cat was found dead inside of the unit. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was under investigation<\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSSMOOR, CA \u2014 A two-story townhome fire in Orange County killed a pet cat on Tuesday, authorities said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-193482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}