{"id":217879,"date":"2026-04-03T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217879\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:12:13","slug":"2-pets-die-during-fort-lauderdale-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217879\/","title":{"rendered":"2 pets die during Fort Lauderdale house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 3, 2026 at 11:39 AM<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel rescue a pet turtle from fire Cat and bearded dragon die during house fire in Fort Lauderdale <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Firefighters declared a cat and a bearded dragon dead on Friday during a house fire in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/03\/mueren-dos-mascotas-en-incendio-de-vivienda-en-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/03\/mueren-dos-mascotas-en-incendio-de-vivienda-en-fort-lauderdale\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The house was on fire shortly before 10:20 a.m. along the 1300 block of Northwest Third Court, according to the Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SIWQHSM7C5GAHGUL4TYAB222BY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>HOUSE FIRE: Fort Lauderdale fire rescue personnel rescues a pet turtle on Friday in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Firefighters found one person inside the home who wasn\u2019t injured and rescued a pet tortoise that required oxygen and water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other four people who live at the home were not inside during the fire, which was under investigation. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LUBSPTZTRJBAVNK3SYVVWQLT2U.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>HOUSE FIRE Firefighters rescue a pet turtle on Friday during a house fire in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 3, 2026 at 11:39 AM Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue personnel rescue a pet turtle from fire Cat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-217879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217879","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=217879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}