Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue firefighters respond after a truck-mounted crane fell onto a house on the 800 block of Southeast Eighth Street on Thursday morning, Sept. 24, 2026.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue
Two cranes fell on top of a Fort Lauderdale house Thursday, causing significant structural damage to the home, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said.
The first crane, which was mounted on a truck, tipped over around 9:10 a.m. on the 800 block of Southeast Eighth Street, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman said.
Two truck-mounted cranes collapsed in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. The crane on the right buckled while lifting the other crane, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue
Then another truck-mounted crane was brought in to lift the first one, and its beam buckled from the weight, and it too fell onto the house, Guzman said.
The beam of a truck-mounted crane is bent while lifting another crane that fell onto a Fort Lauderdale house on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue
The home sustained heavy damage, but no one was injured, he said. The city’s fire inspector and building department are investigating.
This story was originally published September 24, 2026 at 10:46 AM.
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David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.