{"id":282849,"date":"2026-05-24T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:21:12","slug":"jfrd-1-dead-12-displaced-after-apartment-fire-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282849\/","title":{"rendered":"JFRD: 1 dead, 12 displaced after apartment fire in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An apartment fire in Jacksonville early Sunday morning left one man dead, a woman injured and 12 people displaced, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JFRD Battalion Chief Aaron Bebernitz told First Coast News crews were dispatched to Landon Imperial Apartments at 4:17 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When they arrived, crews observed &#8220;heavy fire conditions&#8221; and smoke coming from units on the first and second floor of the apartments, according to Bebernitz.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bebernitz said firefighters entered one unit and rescued a man and woman, as they were then taken to a local trauma center, where the man died. The woman has since been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another JFRD spokesperson said seven adults and five children were displaced from the fire. The Red Cross is now assisting them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At this time, it is unknown what caused the fire. Bebernitz said &#8220;it&#8217;ll take some time,&#8221; while adding that the state fire marshal will investigate, with help from the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office Homicide Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An apartment fire in Jacksonville early Sunday morning left one man dead, a woman injured and 12 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120302,14987,116,118,117,45740],"class_list":["post-282849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-aaron-bebernitz","tag-apartment-fire","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriff39s-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282849","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=282849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}