{"id":250435,"date":"2026-04-29T00:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:55:26","slug":"florida-grandpa-saves-boy-3-from-house-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250435\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida grandpa saves boy, 3, from house destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ilpz8f73c90n0or3.jpg\" alt=\"Florida grandpa saves boy, 3, from burning home\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Without hesitation, a Florida grandfather ran into his family&#8217;s burning home to rescue his three-year-old grandson. Now, days after a fire destroyed the family&#8217;s home, they&#8217;re trying to rebuild their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Three-year-old Luca was trapped inside his family&#8217;s Geneva home amid the chaos of a house fire on April 24. Seminole County Officials said the fire started in the kitchen and then spread to parts of the garage and the attic.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">As the family ran outside, trying to escape as flames and thick smoke quickly filled their home, Luca&#8217;s mom, Kayla Argueta, said he slipped away and got trapped inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Kayla Argueta said her only focus in that moment was getting her children out alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got one, and I put one on my side, and then I was dragging the other one out,&#8221; Argueta said.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-2026-04-28-174112.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">However, as the family made it safely outside, Luca remained in the burning home. Argueta&#8217;s dad ran back into the home and rescued her son.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;He ran back in, he was bleeding from his arm,&#8221; Argueta told FOX 35&#8217;s Alexus Cleavenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The grandfather was able to locate Luca and carried him out of the burning home.<\/p>\n<p>All six family members made it out alive. But, their pets didn&#8217;t survive, and their home was completely destroyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-2026-04-28-174101.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">A Geneva family&#8217;s home was destroyed by a fire on April 24, 2026.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Now, the family is left picking up the pieces.<\/p>\n<p>They said they need support as they try to rebuild their lives and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-my-brothers-family-rebuild-after-fire-jmm3p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GoFundMe<\/a> was started to help with temporary housing and essential items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered by FOX 35&#8217;s Alexus Cleavenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/seminole-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; Without hesitation, a Florida grandfather ran into his family&#8217;s burning home to rescue his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,1014,628],"class_list":["post-250435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-seminole-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250435","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=250435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}