{"id":283161,"date":"2026-05-25T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:08:09","slug":"dog-rabbits-bearded-dragon-rescued-after-fort-lauderdale-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283161\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog, rabbits, bearded dragon rescued after Fort Lauderdale house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM<\/p>\n<p>FLFR: 5 people displacedlead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A2CTEIMALNHXXIJPKRH4VZKEYI.jpg\"  width=\"554\" height=\"311\"\/>Fort Lauderdale house fire (FLFR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale firefighters rescued several pets from a burning home in the city\u2019s Melrose Manors neighborhood on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, the blaze began in a carport in the 3000 block of Southwest Second Street at around 6:20 p.m. and spread to the adjacent home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An FLFR spokesperson said everyone inside the house got out safely and firefighters \u201crescued a dog, two rabbits and a bearded dragon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The blaze, which caused \u201cextensive damage,\u201d took about 30 minutes to put out and displaced five people, including two children, according to FLFR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said the cause of the fire remained under investigation Sunday evening and the American Red Cross is helping the displaced residents find accommodations and assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM FLFR: 5 people displacedlead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandFort Lauderdale house fire (FLFR) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-283161","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\/283161","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=283161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}