{"id":273009,"date":"2026-05-16T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273009\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:30:06","slug":"yacht-fire-under-venetian-causeway-put-out-two-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273009\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacht fire under Venetian Causeway put out, two rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_firetruck_breakingne_4_1_1TNHMAEJ_L776283229.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A 43-foot yacht went up in flames under the Venetian Causeway on  Friday night Firefighters rescued two people and extinguished the blaze. \" alt=\"A 43-foot yacht went up in flames under the Venetian Causeway on  Friday night Firefighters rescued two people and extinguished the blaze. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A 43-foot yacht went up in flames under the Venetian Causeway on  Friday night Firefighters rescued two people and extinguished the blaze. <\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald File<\/p>\n<p>A 43-foot yacht was engulfed in flames underneath the Venetian Causeway on Friday night, authorities say. Firefighters battled the blaze and rescued people onboard.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7:30 p.m., 911 calls came in about the 43-foot cabin cruiser fire, which triggered Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and Miami Beach Fire Rescue to rush to the scene, Miami Beach deputy chief Jorge Linares said.<\/p>\n<p>Two people on board were rescued with no injuries, as firefighters were able to put out the blaze. The cause of the fire is being investigated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.<\/p>\n<p>A video given to OnlyInDade shows the large yacht almost completely engulfed in flames as smoke billows away from the Venetian Causeway it was sitting under.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/232859752\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778895006_453_image1 (1) Cropped (2).jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Devoun Cetoute\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/232859752\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devoun Cetoute<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald Cops and Breaking News Reporter Devoun Cetoute covers a plethora of Florida topics, from breaking news to crime patterns. He was on the breaking news team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022. He\u2019s a graduate of the University of Florida, born and raised in Miami-Dade. Theme parks, movies and cars are on his mind in and out of the office.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 43-foot yacht went up in flames under the Venetian Causeway on Friday night Firefighters rescued two people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-273009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273009","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=273009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}