JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 What was supposed to be a relaxing Tuesday morning for David Kuschka turned into a frightening scene just outside his window.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was woken up last night by my wife, and I looked out the window, I saw the plumes of smoke,\u201d said Kuschka.<\/p>\n
JFRD says they responded to the fire at 5:49 a.m. Tuesday morning in a mobile home in the Three Seasons mobile home community on the Westside. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The fire was put out just after 6:20 in the morning, and roughly 20 minutes later, they found a woman dead inside.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel bad for what happened,\u201d Kuschka said.<\/p>\n JFRD says the fire started inside the house. They note there was a hoarding situation inside the home, which made it more challenging to put the fire out. David says he\u2019s lived near the woman for years but didn\u2019t know her very well. However, he hates that this happened to her.<\/p>\n \u201cMy heart goes out to them,\u201d Kuschka said.<\/p>\n The State fire marshal is leading the investigation. Right now, they are still trying to determine what exactly caused the fire. We asked if there was any indication that this fire was set intentionally. JFRD said it does not appear so at this time.<\/p>\n JFRD did say that this is the first death from a fire in Duval County in 2026. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 What was supposed to be a relaxing Tuesday morning for David Kuschka turned into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,643,16647,68867,969,116,118,117,69579,12814,634,644,656,22574,27972,69578],"class_list":{"0":"post-143344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-action_news_jack","10":"tag-action_shack","11":"tag-collins_road","12":"tag-jack","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-jayfferty","17":"tag-jfrd","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-madison","20":"tag-madison_foglio","21":"tag-shay","22":"tag-shay_simon","23":"tag-three_season"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143344","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=143344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}