{"id":201695,"date":"2026-03-22T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201695\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:23:12","slug":"red-cross-helps-at-least-6-following-fire-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201695\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross helps at least 6 following fire in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A cat was rescued but at least six people needed help from the American Red Cross following a fire in Fort Pierce March 21, according to the St. Lucie County Fire District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews responded at 12:44 p.m. to the 2000 block of Oleander Boulevard, near the intersection with Southern Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"St. Lucie County firefighters battle a fire in the 2000 block of Oleander Boulevard, Fort Pierce, Florida, March 21, 2026. One cat was rescued.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d915c9a407b97e90e3cd62e16386f91e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Lucie County firefighters battle a fire in the 2000 block of Oleander Boulevard, Fort Pierce, Florida, March 21, 2026. One cat was rescued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters called for a second alarm at 12:54 p.m. and had the fire under control at 1:03 p.m. The fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No further information was available March 22 from the fire district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More on Fort Pierce: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/crabbys-dockside-restaurant-owners-face-090448575.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Crabby&#039;s Dockside restaurant owners face deadline to find new operator;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Crabby&#039;s Dockside restaurant owners face deadline to find new operator&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crabby&#8217;s Dockside restaurant owners face deadline to find new operator<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More on Fort Pierce: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/fort-pierce-leaders-want-dump-090223420.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fort Pierce leaders want to &#039;dump&#039; Waste Management;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Fort Pierce leaders want to &#039;dump&#039; Waste Management&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Pierce leaders want to &#8216;dump&#8217; Waste Management<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Keith Burbank is TCPalm&#8217;s watchdog reporter covering Martin County. He can be reached at keith.burbank@tcpalm.com and at 720-288-6882.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/local\/st-lucie-county\/2026\/03\/22\/at-least-6-require-help-from-red-cross-following-fire-in-florida\/89275981007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:At least 6 require help from Red Cross following fire in Florida;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;At least 6 require help from Red Cross following fire in Florida&quot;}\" class=\"link \">At least 6 require help from Red Cross following fire in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cat was rescued but at least six people needed help from the American Red Cross following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2738,28,30,29,3886],"class_list":{"0":"post-201695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-american-red-cross","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-fort-pierce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201695","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=201695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}