{"id":268227,"date":"2026-05-12T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268227\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:59:14","slug":"2-injured-trying-to-escape-pompano-beach-fire-early-tuesday-morning-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268227\/","title":{"rendered":"2 injured trying to escape Pompano Beach fire early Tuesday morning, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/pompano-beach\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pompano Beach<\/a> after an early morning fire tore through a quadruplex that displaced six people and injured two people, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pompano Beach Fire Rescue, units responded to reports of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fire<\/a> at a quadruplex at 345 Northwest 5th Street around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that 14 adults were inside the building&#8217;s four units when the blaze broke out.<\/p>\n<p>A man suffered a laceration after he was forced to jump from a window to escape the flames, and another was reported to have had a seizure during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims were taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/broward-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broward<\/a> Health North for treatment, and the other 12 residents escaped without injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to successfully extinguish the blaze, and units one and two in the quadruplex were deemed to be uninhabitable, displacing six people.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/red-cross\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American Red Cross<\/a> is assisting those who were displaced, and an investigation into the cause of the fire continues.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Pompano Beach after an early morning fire tore through a quadruplex that displaced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[506,115213,855,123,125,124,8928,17217,807],"class_list":["post-268227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-broward-county","tag-broward-sheriff039s-office","tag-fire","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-pompano-beach","tag-red-cross","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268227","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=268227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}