{"id":182565,"date":"2026-03-07T23:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:12:06","slug":"wind-driven-blaze-engulfs-port-st-lucie-home-displacing-resident-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182565\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind-driven blaze engulfs Port St. Lucie home, displacing resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A wind-driven fire tore through a home in Port St. Lucie Friday afternoon, challenging firefighters as they worked to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:33 p.m., units from the St. Lucie County Fire District say they were called to the Alhombra South neighborhood to find the home already heavily involved in flames. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters say winds exceeding 10 mph helped drive the fire and complicated containment efforts.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/crash-involving-patrol-car-disrupts-traffic-at-busy-boynton-beach-gateway-boulevard-north-congress-avenue-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crash involving patrol car disrupts traffic at busy Boynton Beach intersection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One homeowner was reportedly treated for minor injuries but declined transport to a nearby hospital. No other injuries were reported. The Red Cross was called to the occupant displaced by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say the cause of the blaze is under investigation by the Fire Marshal\u2019s Office, and no further details have been released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A wind-driven fire tore through a home in Port St. Lucie Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-182565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182565","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=182565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}