{"id":146618,"date":"2026-02-06T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146618\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:36:10","slug":"homeowner-speaks-out-after-fort-lauderdale-home-ignites-in-flames-after-he-turned-on-his-central-heat-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146618\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowner speaks out after Fort Lauderdale home ignites in flames after he turned on his central heat &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A homeowner is speaking out after he says his <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/broward\/crews-extinguish-house-fire-in-fort-lauderdale-no-injuries-reported-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">home went up in flames<\/a> moments after he turned on the central heat to try to get warm.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with 7News, Dennis said he quickly smelled smoke and that the alarm went off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I switched from cool to heat, it ignited something instantly. [My wife] was in the kitchen. I thought she was cooking because the kitchen alarm went off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But as the minutes went by, he knew that something wasn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin five to seven minutes, the house was really filling up with smoke fast,\u201d said Dennis.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue was called and arrived quickly at their home.<\/p>\n<p>Crews cut into the home\u2019s roof, found flames, and extinguished them within 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The damage to the family\u2019s roof was significant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTear up the roof, pulled the ceilings so it\u2019s quite a bit of damage, but it\u2019s just one of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he and his wife consider themselves lucky to have evacuated safely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could\u2019ve been a lot worse,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody is fine, and it\u2019ll work out. It\u2019s a good thing that I called so quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dennis believes the A\/C caused the fire, but investigators say the official cause has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A homeowner is speaking out after he says his home went up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-146618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146618","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=146618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}