{"id":129485,"date":"2026-01-23T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129485\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:57:08","slug":"deputies-investigate-several-fires-set-in-fort-myers-one-person-in-custody-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129485\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies investigate several fires set in Fort Myers, one person in custody | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2014The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office is currently investigating several brush fires set in the Fort Myers area.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Law enforcement responded to the scene located near Old Gladiolus Drive and S Tamiami Trail at around 1 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deputies confirmed to WINK News that an investigation is underway and a person is in custody.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The South Trail Fire &amp; Rescue District responded to the brush fires, saying that all\u00a0fires have been extinguished and crews are being released from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The fire marshal and fire investigators along with deputies will continue to investigate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News reporter Damien Alvarado is en route to the scene to gather more information and provide updates whenever they become available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Stay tuned to\u00a0<a class=\"x_ContentPasted0\" title=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/winknews.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2014The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office is currently investigating several brush fires set in the Fort Myers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-129485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129485","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=129485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}