{"id":206034,"date":"2026-03-25T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:48:16","slug":"sw-miami-dade-townhouse-goes-up-in-flames-after-reptile-light-starts-blaze-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206034\/","title":{"rendered":"SW Miami-Dade townhouse goes up in flames after reptile light starts blaze &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A Southwest Miami-Dade townhouse went up in flames after a small mistake sparked a major fire, Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said that the blaze started when a child accidentally left the heating light for a pet reptile on top of a bed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in the 4500 block of Southwest 143rd Court.<\/p>\n<p>MDFR crews said that they arrived to heavy smoke coming through the front of the house, but were able to put out the flames.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported from the fire, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A Southwest Miami-Dade townhouse went up in flames after a small mistake sparked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-206034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206034","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=206034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}