{"id":186315,"date":"2026-03-10T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:03:17","slug":"child-playing-with-matches-starts-fire-officials-say-gentlemans-club-shooting-fl-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186315\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Playing With Matches Starts Fire, Officials Say | Gentleman&#8217;s Club Shooting: FL Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/southtampa\/around-town\" class=\"Label_CardDetail__topicLabel__2wZof Link_Link__V8m2V\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Community Corner<\/a>Here are the headlines you may have missed from the weekend in Florida.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tiffany Razzano's profile picture\" class=\"avatar-img avatar-img--base is-lazy-loaded\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mP8\/x8AAwMCAO+ip1sAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tiffany Razzano's profile picture\" class=\"avatar-img avatar-img--base\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/me-and-spike___16105002649.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Posted Mon, Mar  9, 2026 at 12:01 pm ET<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Four people and three pets were displaced after a house fire was started by a child playing with matches, Hernando County Fire Rescue officials said.\" class=\"styles_CardDetail__FeaturedImage__yx9P9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/patch-main-image___09114629281.png\"   width=\"700\" height=\"525\"\/>Four people and three pets were displaced after a house fire was started by a child playing with matches, Hernando County Fire Rescue officials said. (Courtesy of Hernando County Fire Rescue)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up the Patch stories you may have missed in Florida over the weekend to prepare you for the week ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Find out what&#8217;s happening in Tampafor free with the latest updates from Patch.Find out what&#8217;s happening in Tampafor free with the latest updates from Patch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles_HTMLContent__bNPCl SubscribeCTABlurb_SubscribeCTABlurb__5x0v2\">Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/southtampa\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"\">Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*:nth-of-type(1){font-size:22px;}]]>Join the conversation    *:nth-of-type(1){font-size:22px;}]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community CornerHere are the headlines you may have missed from the weekend in Florida. Posted Mon, Mar 9,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-186315","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\/186315","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=186315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}