{"id":180953,"date":"2026-03-06T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:02:19","slug":"authorities-investigate-freeport-house-fire-on-south-miami-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180953\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities investigate Freeport house fire on South Miami Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FREEPORT, Ill. (WIFR) &#8211; An investigation is underway for the cause of a fire Thursday morning that destroyed a home in Freeport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just before 8 a.m., March 5, fire crews were called out to the area of Miami Ave. and Garden St. for a report of smoke coming from a home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When firefighters arrived they found heavy smoke showing at a two-story home in the 1000 block of S. Miami Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews aggressively battled the fire for several hours before it was fully extinguished. Reports say Freeport Fire Department was on scene for about eight hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All residents safely evacuated before crews arrived and no injuries were reported in the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the home suffered severe damage and was deemed a total loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the Freeport Police Department, the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal and the Freeport Fire Department Fire Marshal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIFR. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREEPORT, Ill. (WIFR) &#8211; An investigation is underway for the cause of a fire Thursday morning that destroyed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85455,123,85454,125,124,85453],"class_list":["post-180953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-freeport-fire","tag-miami","tag-miami-ave-fire","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-miami-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180953","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=180953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}