{"id":127298,"date":"2026-01-22T02:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127298\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:39:09","slug":"tampa-house-fire-leaves-cat-dead-5-other-pets-rescued-hcfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127298\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa house fire leaves cat dead, 5 other pets rescued: HCFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2yr71ya20bda413u.jpg\" alt=\"Cat dies, 5 pets saved in Tampa house fire: HCFR\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A cat passed away, and five other pets were rescued from a home that caught fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa <\/a>Wednesday morning, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HCFR says at around 11:17 a.m., crews responded to reports of heavy flames coming from a home on Lake Stall Lane in the Carrollwood area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officials say firefighters contained the blaze in less than 15 minutes using hose lines.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Hillsborough County Fire Rescue <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">During a search of the residence, firefighters saved three dogs and three cats. One of the cats died from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fire <\/a>conditions, HCFR said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/fire-spreads-homes-tampa-neighborhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fire spreads between homes in Tampa neighborhood: HCFR<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The five other pets were taken to a local veterinarian for evaluation and care.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No firefighters were injured, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HCFR\u2019s Fire Investigations Unit is working to determine the cause of the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/fire\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A cat passed away, and five other pets were rescued from a home that caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[855,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-127298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-hillsborough","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}