{"id":178039,"date":"2026-03-04T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178039\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:24:08","slug":"2-hospitalized-after-fire-breaks-out-at-st-pete-duplex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178039\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hospitalized after fire breaks out at St. Pete duplex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before firefighters arrived, a St. Petersburg police officer helped a person climb out of a window to get to safety.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Two people were hospitalized after a fire broke out at a St. Pete home on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Fire Rescue responded just after 9:30 a.m. to a one-story duplex on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3450+33rd+Ave+N,+St.+Petersburg,+FL+33713\/@27.8015447,-82.6807312,19z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x88c2e397f931868b:0xf8a6ad92054d087c!8m2!3d27.8017262!4d-82.68053!16s%252Fg%252F11crw6w9dv?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMwMS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%253D%253D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">33rd Avenue N off of 34th Street.<\/a> They arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the home.<\/p>\n<p>Before firefighters arrived, a St. Petersburg police officer helped a person climb out of a window to get to safety. Fire crews helped three more people evacuate safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters began an &#8220;aggressive&#8221; interior attack on the fire, successfully containing it and preventing it from spreading to a nearby home.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were evaluated on scene and hospitalized for further medical care. Crews are continuing to conduct overhaul operations and check for any hidden fire.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bcceca3e-8458-495e-b3cc-fb88ee9de9ef_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bcceca3e-8458-495e-b3cc-fb88ee9de9ef_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before firefighters arrived, a St. Petersburg police officer helped a person climb out of a window to get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-178039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178039","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=178039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}