{"id":284071,"date":"2026-05-25T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:38:09","slug":"corvette-fire-sparks-massive-blaze-that-damages-fort-lauderdale-home-displaces-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284071\/","title":{"rendered":"Corvette fire sparks massive blaze that damages Fort Lauderdale home, displaces family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big flames leaped toward the sky after a fire started under a Corvette parked in a carport on Southwest 31st Avenue and Second Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a>&#8216;s Melrose Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ran out there, we got some hoses, a couple neighbors tried to help. And then soon, one, two, three\u2014the flames started getting really bad,&#8221; said homeowner Annie Examet. She and a neighbor tried to control the fire until firefighters arrived, but they just couldn&#8217;t stop it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just grew larger,&#8221; she said, &#8220;in a matter of seconds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As fire rescue pulled up, the flames and thick black smoke were getting more intense. That&#8217;s when the fire spread from the carport to the house. It took firefighters about half an hour to get the fire under control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All inside there, it&#8217;s really terrible,&#8221; Examet said, pointing to her home.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, there is major damage throughout the house, including collapsed ceilings and heavy smoke damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really, really messed up,&#8221; Examet said. &#8220;The living room\u2014oh my gosh, it&#8217;s really, really bad. So what&#8217;s left is me, my kids, and my mom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fire investigators are looking for the cause. Meanwhile, Examet, her three adult children, and her mother all got out safely. Firefighters were able to rescue all the family pets, including a dog, two rabbits, and a bearded dragon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big flames leaped toward the sky after a fire started under a Corvette parked in a carport on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[47883,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-284071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-car-fire","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\/284071","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=284071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}